Re: SSI patch version 14 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: SSI patch version 14
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Msg-id AANLkTi=reTQNeUEn8u1eNkTQAPJHyK66gVhgwg=5GUG7@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: SSI patch version 14  (Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>)
Responses Re: SSI patch version 14
Re: SSI patch version 14
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On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch> wrote:
> On 02/09/2011 04:16 PM, David Fetter wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:09:48PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> Frankly, I think this is an example of how our current shared memory
>>> model is a piece of garbage.
>>
>> What other model(s) might work better?
>
> Thread based, dynamically allocatable and resizeable shared memory, as
> most other projects and developers use, for example.

Or less invasively, a small sysv shm to prevent the double-postmaster
problem, and allocate the rest using POSIX shm.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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