Re: Multiple Xids in PGPROC? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Multiple Xids in PGPROC?
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Msg-id 16541.1083727267@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Multiple Xids in PGPROC?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
Responses Re: Multiple Xids in PGPROC?  (Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at>)
Re: Multiple Xids in PGPROC?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> So, the big question is, how do we do this?  The most obvious way (to
> me) is to keep the whole array inside the PGPROC struct.
> ...
> The main downside is that it potentially
> requires a lot of shared memory.  Can we afford that?

No.  Shared memory is fixed size, therefore the above is guaranteed to
fail.

I thought we had devised a solution that did not require expansible
shared memory for this.  Bruce, Manfred, do you recall how that went?
        regards, tom lane


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