Re: Shared Memory and Mac OS X - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Shared Memory and Mac OS X
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Msg-id 5113.1109044863@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Shared Memory and Mac OS X  (Jerry LeVan <jerry.levan@eku.edu>)
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Jerry LeVan <jerry.levan@eku.edu> writes:
> There have been some recent discussions on Shared Memory problems
> in Darwin on the darwin-kernel list at lists.apple.com.

> The subject is : shm_open and mmap: Invalid argument?

> Tain't clear to me if this is relevant to the MacOS X and
> Postgresql shared memory problem that I see mentioned here
> from time to time... ( some of the discussion centers on
> releasing the segments).

Executive summary seems to be: the thread originator hit some of the
bugs that Darwin has with SysV shared memory, decided to try POSIX
shared memory instead, and found that that sucks even worse :-(
It certainly didn't inspire me to consider switching.

            regards, tom lane

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