On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> If you are willing to run a hand-hacked version then I'd suggest doing
>> your experimentation with CVS HEAD. There are changes in place already
>> to reduce the stats file traffic.
>
> Why do we _have_ to write the file to disk? I wonder if it would work
> to store the file in a mmaped memory region and have the readers get
> data from there. We could have more than one copy, reference-counted so
> that they can be removed when the old readers are gone.
what about fifo files...would they be appropriate for something like this?
merlin
