Re: Postgres Process in Kernel Mode?

moises wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I’m new in postgres SQL and I have some questions about the space where 
> postgres process run.
> 
> 1-Can any body say me what libs use postgres for make system calls, for 
> example LIBC?
> 
> 2-Can any body talk me if some postgres process can run in Linux kernel 
> space?
> 
> 3- Some body knows if exist some projects that ports postgres process on 
> Linux kernel space.
>  
> 
> I was read some source code of postgres, like,
> 
> Postgres.C and others…
> 
> I was found C instructions like Printf, that’s prohibitive for Linux 
> kernel applications, for example in kernel mode we use printk.
> 
> I suppose that postgres are ported in a user space only. I’m Ok?
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Moises


You can do it (e.g. http://www.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tosh/kml/) but why 
would you want to? PG runs fine in userspace and I can see no particular 
benefit to being in the kernel.

What exactly are you trying to do with it? Are you trying to interface 
PG with some kernel facility?


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