Re: patch: preload dictionary new version - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: patch: preload dictionary new version
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Msg-id 12652.1278907329@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: patch: preload dictionary new version  (Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>)
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Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com> writes:
> 2010/7/8 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> For example, the dictionary-load code could automatically execute
>> the precompile step if it observed that the precompiled copy of the
>> dictionary was missing or had an older file timestamp than the source.

> There might be a problem in automatic precompiler -- Where should we
> save the result? OS users of postgres servers don't have write-permission
> to $PGSHARE in normal cases. Instead, we can store the precompiled
> result to $PGDATA/pg_dict_cache or so.

Yeah.  Actually we'd *have* to do something like that because $PGSHARE
should contain only architecture-independent files, while the
precompiled files would presumably have dependencies on endianness etc.
        regards, tom lane


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