Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is why I sometimes wonder whether or not it would be a win to use
> mmap() to access the data and index files -- 

mmap() is Right Out because it does not afford us sufficient control
over when changes to the in-memory data will propagate to disk.  The
address-space-management problems you describe are also a nasty
headache, but that one is the showstopper.

                        regards, tom lane

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