Sean Chittenden wrote: > > Backend only forks(). I think you would be better off using > > Makefile macros to _remove_ those two libraries. > > > > I see this: > > > > $(filter crypt.o getaddrinfo.o inet_aton.o snprintf.o strerror.o path.o > > thread.o, $(LIBOBJS)) > > > > Seems you need the reverse. > > Ah, well, if it fork()'s, then I don't really care. The best > remaining argument for this would be to reduce the total size of a > machine's VM page table size and possibly the expense of switching > contexts between procs, but that's a pretty weak argument for only .5M > of shared RAM. For some reason I thought it exec()'ed a child with > the args necessary for it to read in a postgresql.conf. Looks like > the comment in backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c is out of date then: > > * AttachSharedMemoryAndSemaphores > * Attaches to the existing shared resources when exec()'d off > * by the postmaster.
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