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

From Markus Wanner
Subject Re: dynamically allocating chunks from shared memory
Date
Msg-id 4C604B7D.9060703@bluegap.ch
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: dynamically allocating chunks from shared memory  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: dynamically allocating chunks from shared memory  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
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?

Regards

Markus


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: dynamically allocating chunks from shared memory
Next
From: Robert Haas
Date:
Subject: Re: dynamically allocating chunks from shared memory