Hi, On 29/10/12 16:33, Tom Lane wrote: > > I created a patch which implements MAP_HUGETLB for sysv shared memory > > segments > > (PGSharedMemoryCreate). It is based on tests of Tom Lane and Andres Freund, > > I > > added error handling, huge page size detection and a GUC variable. > > My recollection is we'd decided not to pursue that because of fears that > it could make performance horribly worse on some platforms.
This is why I created a GUC for turning this feature off. Greetings, CK
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