On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 1:56 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > My point is that for iSCSC to be performant we'd need *all* the > infrastructure we also need for direct IO *and* a *lot* more. And that > it seems insane to invest very substantial resources into developing our > own iSCSI client when we don't even have DIO support. And DIO support > would allow us to address the error reporting issues, while also > drastically improving performance in a lot of situations. And we'd not > have to essentially develop our own filesystem etc.
OK, got it. So, I'll merge the patch for direct I/O support tomorrow, and then the iSCSI patch can go in on Thursday. OK? :-) -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company