Tom, On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Igor Korot <ikoro...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> If we do anything about this, I'd just say "systems that have > >> posix_fadvise()". If we write something more specific it's likely to > >> become obsolete, and it doesn't seem to me that it's hard for someone > >> to research "does my box have posix_fadvise()? > > > Imagine a person that wants to write a program which will cover creating > > the table space. > > Such person needs to cover the appropriate fields with possible values. > > Is there a #define such person should check to cover the appropriate > values? > > HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE. Seems to me it'd be way easier to find that > from documentation that mentions posix_fadvise than from documentation > that says "it works on systems X, Y, Z". Agreed. Hopefully someone can put this in… Thx. > > regards, tom lane >