On Feb 9, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > 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.
Such a patch was proposed and rejected: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general/94791 Cheers, M -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
