Re: fork/exec patch - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: fork/exec patch
Date
Msg-id 20031215000231.GB9015@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Re: fork/exec patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: fork/exec patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:53:22PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I don't think we ever discussed it, but it seemed logical and a minimal
> > change to the code.  We already have a GUC write of non-default values
> > for exec and no one had issues with that.
>
> You can hardly claim that "no one had issues with that".  I complained
> about it and I think other people did too.  It's a messy, ugly approach;
> moreover we have no field experience that says it's reliable.

Don't the FSM and the system catalog cache use a similar mechanism?

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Limítate a mirar... y algun día veras"

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