Re: Beta 1 Release Draft - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Beta 1 Release Draft
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Msg-id 20130503005245.GE3374@momjian.us
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In response to Beta 1 Release Draft  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 04:53:24PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> In 9.3, PostgreSQL has switched from using SysV shared memory to using
> Posix shared memory and mmap for memory management.  This allows easier
> installation and configuration of PostgreSQL, but means that we need our
> users to rigorously test and ensure that no memory management issues
> have been introduced by the change.

I am not aware of any additional memory testing available, unless you
are talkinga about mmap() perhaps being slower than SysV shared memory
on some operating systems.  Is that it?

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