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| author | Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org> | 2022-08-05 11:43:14 +1200 |
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| committer | Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org> | 2022-08-05 14:04:02 +1200 |
| commit | a0dc82711221aa220c5246fe788e5ed28924a4ea (patch) | |
| tree | 09548e065aea773708922bf263e7cb51d261a6c2 /configure.ac | |
| parent | 718fe0a14add0fadb17d715d7aa24ebcf3fb35c4 (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-a0dc82711221aa220c5246fe788e5ed28924a4ea.tar.gz | |
Simplify replacement code for preadv and pwritev.
preadv() and pwritev() are not standardized by POSIX, but appeared in
NetBSD in 1999 and were adopted by at least OpenBSD, FreeBSD,
DragonFlyBSD, Linux, AIX, illumos and macOS. We don't use them much
yet, but an active proposal uses them heavily.
In 15, we had two replacement implementations for other OSes: one based
on lseek() + -v function if available for true vector I/O, and the other
based on a loop over p- function.
The former would be an obstacle to hypothetical future multi-threaded
code sharing file descriptors, while the latter would not, since commit
cf112c12. Furthermore, the number of targeted systems that could
benefit from the former's potential upside has dwindled to just one
niche OS, since macOS added the functions and we de-supported HP-UX.
That doesn't seem like a good trade-off.
Therefore, drop the lseek()-based variant, and also the pg_ prefix now
that the file position portability hazard is gone.
At the time of writing, the only systems in our build farm that lack
native preadv/pwritev and thus use fallback code are:
* Solaris (but not illumos)
* macOS before release 11.0
* Windows
With this commit, the above systems will now use the *same* fallback
code, the version that loops over pread()/pwrite(). Windows already
used that (though a later proposal may include true vector I/O for
Windows), so this decision really only affects Solaris, until it gets
around to adding these system calls.
Also remove some useless includes while here.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'configure.ac')
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index cd29d533a5..2938c9c7de 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1803,7 +1803,6 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(m4_normalize([ posix_fallocate ppoll pthread_is_threaded_np - readv setproctitle setproctitle_fast strchrnul @@ -1812,7 +1811,6 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(m4_normalize([ sync_file_range uselocale wcstombs_l - writev ])) # These typically are compiler builtins, for which AC_CHECK_FUNCS fails. |