Re: dynamically allocating chunks from shared memory - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: dynamically allocating chunks from shared memory
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Msg-id 201008091849.o79InFi13563@momjian.us
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In response to Re: dynamically allocating chunks from shared memory  (Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>)
Responses Re: dynamically allocating chunks from shared memory  (Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>)
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Markus Wanner wrote:
> On 08/09/2010 08:33 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> You probably wouldn't do either of those things.  You'd just allocate
> >> small chunks here and there for whatever you need them for.
> >
> > Well, then we do that with shared memory then --- my point is that it is
> > the same problem with threads or processes.
> 
> That's what my patch allows you to do, yes. Currently you are bound to 
> pre-allocate shared memory at startup. Or how would you allocate small 
> chunks from shared memory at the moment?

We don't --- we allocate it all at startup.

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