On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Markus Wanner <mar...@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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers