On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 11:52:19AM -0500, Sami Imseih wrote:
>> Another random thought: I worry that the dshash approach might be quite a
>> bit slower, and IIUC we just need to map an integer to a string. Maybe we
>> should just use a DSA for LWLockTrancheNames. IOW we'd leave it as a char**
>> but put it in shared memory.
>
> To use DSA just for this purpose, we would need to maintain an array of
> dsa_pointers that reference the string(s), right? I am not clear what you
> mean by using dsa to put the char**
I was imagining putting the array in one big DSA allocation instead of
carting around a pointer for each tranche name. (Sorry, I realize I am
hand-waving over some of the details.)
--
nathan
