Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> As I understand it, the postmaster shared memory idea is good because
> only the postmaster writes to it, and only the backends read from it.
> If the HANDLE works the same way, I think you should put it into the
> shared memory too, hence (b).
But the postmaster needs to use the HANDLE, hence not (b).
regards, tom lane