Re: Feature: POSIX Shared memory support

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Chris Marcellino <maps(at)levelview(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Feature: POSIX Shared memory support
Date: 2007-02-06 18:32:18
Message-ID: 20070206183218.GJ22166@alvh.no-ip.org
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Chris Marcellino wrote:
> Tom, that is a definitely valid point and thanks for the feedback. I
> assume that the 'more modern' string segment naming gave the POSIX
> methods an edge in avoiding collision between other apps.
> As far as detecting a) whether anyone else is currently attached to
> that segment and b) whether an earlier existence of the current
> backend was still attached to a segment, I presumed that checking the
> pid's of the backend that owns the shared memory segment and checking
> the data directory (both which the SysV code already does) would
> suffice?

Is there an API call to list all PIDs that are connected to a particular
segment?

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