From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Myron Scott <mkscott(at)sacadia(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, Iavor Raytchev <iavor(dot)raytchev(at)verysmall(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Discontent with development process (was:Re: pgaccess |
Date: | 2002-05-15 03:45:26 |
Message-ID: | 20020515004347.R75064-100000@mail1.hub.org |
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On Tue, 14 May 2002, Myron Scott wrote:
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>
> Tom Lane wrote:
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> >
> >
> >With a little more intelligence in the manager of this table, this could
> >also solve my concern about pointer variables. Perhaps the entries
> >could include not just address/size but some type information. If the
> >manager knows "this variable is a pointer to a palloc'd string" then it
> >could do the Right Thing during fork. Not sure offhand what the
> >categories would need to be, but we could derive those if anyone has
> >cataloged the variables that get passed down from postmaster to children.
> >
> >I don't think it needs to be a hashtable --- you wouldn't ever be doing
> >lookups in it, would you? Just a simple list of things-to-copy ought to
> >do fine.
> >
> >
> I'm thinking in a threaded context where a method may need to lookup a
> global that is not passed in. But for copying, I suppose no lookups
> would be neccessary.
if we can, can we keep the whole 'threaded' concept in mind when
developing this ... if going a hashtable would be required for this, let's
go the more complete route and eliminate potential issues down the road
...
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