Re: Let's remove DSM_INPL_NONE. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Let's remove DSM_INPL_NONE.
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYFC0fpMUh1XT4Yz4MdP4q0auQr1UG2OOcYP0s8tD9KBQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Let's remove DSM_INPL_NONE.  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: Let's remove DSM_INPL_NONE.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> What I'm concerned about isn't so much testing paths specific to
> dynamic_shared_memory_type=none, but paths where we currently need
> fallbacks for the case we couldn't actually allocate dynamic shared
> memory. Which I think we at least somewhat gracefully need to deal with.

Well, it's not very hard to just hack the code to make dsm_create()
always fail, or fail X% of the time, if you're so inclined.  I agree
that -c dynamic_shared_memory_type=none is a little more convenient
than sticking something like that into the code, but I don't think
it's sufficiently more convenient to justify keeping an option we
don't otherwise want.

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Robert Haas
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