At 18:05 7/03/01 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> All in all, I do not see this as an easy task that you can whip out and
>> then release as a 7.1 patch without extensive testing. And given that,
>> I'd rather see it done with what I consider the right long-term approach,
>> rather than a dead-end hack. I think doing it in a signal handler is
>> ultimately going to be a dead-end hack.
>
>Well, the signal stuff will get me going at least.
Didn't someone say this can't be done safely - or am I missing something?
ISTM that doing the work to put things in shared memory will be much more
profitable in the long run. You have previously advocated self-tuning
algorithms for performance - a prerequisite for these will be performance
data in shared memory.
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