"Kevin Grittner" <[email protected]> writes:
> Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'm still not convinced that using shared memory is a bad way to 
>>> pass these around. Surely we're not talking about large numbers
>>> of them.  What am I missing here?
>> 
>> They're not of a very predictable size.
 
> Surely you can predict that any snapshot is no larger than a fairly
> small fixed portion plus sizeof(TransactionId) * MaxBackends?

No.  See subtransactions.

                        regards, tom lane

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