On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:00:35PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> real traction we'd have to go back to the "take over most of RAM for
> shared buffers" approach, which we already know to have a bunch of
> severe disadvantages.

I know there are severe disadvantages in the current implementation,
but are there in-principle severe disadvantages?  Or are you speaking
more generally, like "maintainability of code", "someone has to look
after all that buffering optimisation", "potential for about 10
trillion bugs", &c.?

A

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