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- # $Header: /private/postgres/src/storage/smgr/RCS/README,v 1.1 1991/08/08 06:07:35 mao Exp $
-
- This directory contains the code that supports the Postgres storage manager
- switch and all of the installed storage managers. In released systems,
- the only supported storage manager is the magnetic disk manager. At UC
- Berkeley, the Sony WORM optical disk jukebox and persistent main memory are
- also supported.
-
- As of Postgres Release 3.0, every relation in the system is tagged with the
- storage manager on which it resides. The storage manager switch code turns
- what used to by filesystem operations into operations on the correct store,
- for any given relation.
-
- The files in this directory, and their contents, are
-
- smgrtype.c Storage manager type -- maps string names to storage manager
- IDs and provides simple comparison operators. This is the
- regproc support for type 'smgr' in the system catalogs.
-
- smgr.c The storage manager switch dispatch code. The routines in
- this file call the appropriate storage manager to do hardware
- accesses requested by the backend.
-
- md.c The magnetic disk storage manager.
-
- mm.c The persistent main memory storage manager (#undef'ed in
- tmp/c.h for all distributed systems).
-
- sj.c The sony jukebox storage manager and cache management code
- (#undef'ed in tmp/c.h for all distributed systems). The
- routines in this file allocate extents, maintain block
- maps, and guarantee the persistence and coherency of a cache
- of jukebox blocks on magnetic disk.
-
- pgjb.c The postgres jukebox interface routines. The routines here
- handle exclusion on the physical device and translate requests
- from the storage manager code (sj.c) into jbaccess calls.
-
- jbaccess.c Access code for the physical Sony jukebox device. This code
- was swiped from Andy McFadden's jblib.a code at UC Berkeley.
-