Greg Stark wrote: > > James Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Someone from Oracle is on there explaining what Oracle's needs are. Perhaps > > > someone more knowledgable than myself could explain what would most help > > > postgres in this area. > > > > > > There is an important difference between Oracle and Postgres that makes > > discussions of this complicated because the assumptions are different. > > All the more reason Postgres's view of the world should maybe be represented > there. As it turns out Linus seems unsympathetic to the O_DIRECT approach and > seems more interested in building a better kernel interface to control caching > and i/o scheduling. Something that fits better with postgres's design than > Oracle's.
Of course, the big question is why Oracle is even there talking to Linus, and Linus isn't asking to get PostgreSQL involved. If you are running an open-source project, you would think you would give favor to other open-source projects. Same with MySQL favortism --- if you are writing an open-source tool, why favor a database developed/controlled by a single company? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
