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I would dispute the claim that PostgreSQL has been so heavily criticized. Instead, the project was invited to send a representative to the Linux Storage, Files
by corbet 8y ago
I would dispute the claim that PostgreSQL has been so heavily criticized. Instead, the project was invited to send a representative to the Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit (https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2018/ https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2018/) to discuss solutions with the kernel development community; some of the resulting kernel changes are finding their way toward the mainline now.
- anarazel 8y agoIndeed (I was the PG guy at LSF/MM). I didn't feel ill-treated at all. Unless you count attempted poisoning via adult beverages, that is.
- Annatar 8y agoWhat is there to discuss? 20 years into development and there is still no working fsync(2) which does what fsync(2) in a real UNIX has been reliably doing since 1985. One cannot build a robust infrastructure on an operating system where core functionality isn’t working reliably.