On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [I have an outstanding question on how to include LWlock support into > > the archiver, required to flesh out the feature set, and of course > > assuming these patches being accepted.] > > The archiver is deliberately designed not to be connected to shared > memory. If you want to change that you'll have to make a very strong > case why we should give up the safety and security advantages of it.
We should let the user decide. If archiver_timeout is a server start GUC then we can attach to shared memory if it is set, if not we avoid that. If they are in a position to want that functionality they can make that trade-off. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
