On 10/20/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So far I've seen no evidence that async I/O would help us, only a lot of wishful thinking.
is this thread moot? while researching this thread I came across this article: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6642 describing claims of 30% performance boost when using posix_fadvise to ask the o/s to prefetch data. istm that this kind of improvement is in line with what aio can provide, and posix_fadvise is cleaner, not requiring threads and such. merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq