Re: logfile rotation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andreas Pflug
Subject Re: logfile rotation
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Msg-id 40CC8C7F.8060104@pse-consulting.de
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In response to Re: logfile rotation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

>I'll repeat what I said in response to your other posting:
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Hm? I never posted something with shared mem usage before, what do you mean?

>This uses a shared memory area with no lock, which seems a bad design;
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AFAICS there should be no lock necessary.


>We agreed long ago that the
>postmaster should never depend on the correctness of any shared memory
>data structure; but this patch would make it do so.
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I understand that, so what's the suggested way to store data common for 
all backends?

Regards,
Andreas



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