Re: Unsupported effective_io_concurrency platforms

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 16:21 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> If a platform doesn't have posix_fadvise(), we don't allow
> effective_io_concurrency to be set to anything but zero:
> 
>     test=> set  effective_io_concurrency = 1;
>     ERROR:  1 is outside the valid range for parameter "effective_io_concurrency" (0 .. 0)
>     test=> set  effective_io_concurrency = 0;
>     SET
> 
> Do we want to give a more informative error message, like "not supported
> on this platform?"

I would say so.

Joshua D. Drake


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