Re: pgsql: Fix a couple of bugs in win32 shmem name generation: * Don't cut - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: pgsql: Fix a couple of bugs in win32 shmem name generation: * Don't cut
Date
Msg-id 20080704191201.GG3893@alvh.no-ip.org
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: pgsql: Fix a couple of bugs in win32 shmem name generation: * Don't cut  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Fix a couple of bugs in win32 shmem name generation: * Don't cut
List pgsql-committers
Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:

> > According to what you just told me, the original coding is storing the
> > name in a "local namespace", which presumably means it won't conflict
> > anyway.  Ergo, the existing coding is simply broken and there's nothing
> > we can do about it.
>
> Local namespace = Session local, not process local. So it would properly
> protect against two processes started in the same session. One session
> is, for example, an interactive login. But not if they were started by
> different users, since they'd be in different sessions.

But those different users would not have access to the same set of
files, so it wouldn't work anyway, right?

--
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

pgsql-committers by date:

Previous
From: Magnus Hagander
Date:
Subject: Re: pgsql: Fix a couple of bugs in win32 shmem name generation: * Don't cut
Next
From: bloodnok@pgfoundry.org (User Bloodnok)
Date:
Subject: veil - veil: Initial release of changes for serialisation.