Re: patch: preload dictionary new version

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: patch: preload dictionary new version
Date: 2010-07-12 04:02:09
Message-ID: 12652.1278907329@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 2010/7/8 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>> For example, the dictionary-load code could automatically execute
>> the precompile step if it observed that the precompiled copy of the
>> dictionary was missing or had an older file timestamp than the source.

> There might be a problem in automatic precompiler -- Where should we
> save the result? OS users of postgres servers don't have write-permission
> to $PGSHARE in normal cases. Instead, we can store the precompiled
> result to $PGDATA/pg_dict_cache or so.

Yeah. Actually we'd *have* to do something like that because $PGSHARE
should contain only architecture-independent files, while the
precompiled files would presumably have dependencies on endianness etc.

regards, tom lane

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