"Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM> writes:
> Many times PostgreSQL has many things based on assumption that it will
> run on Linux and it is left to Solaris to emulate that behavior.
Au contraire --- PG tries its best to be OS-agnostic. I've personally
resisted people trying to optimize it by putting in Linux-specific
behavior. The above sounds to me like making excuses for a poor OS.
(And yes, I will equally much resist any requests to put in Solaris-
specific behavior...)
regards, tom lane