Re: SSI patch version 14

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dan Ports <drkp(at)csail(dot)mit(dot)edu>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com, markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SSI patch version 14
Date: 2011-02-09 15:16:19
Message-ID: 20110209151619.GA1155@fetter.org
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:09:48PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> If we don't allocate all the memory up front, does that allow memory
> to be dynamically shared between different hash tables in shared
> memory? I'm thinking not, but...
>
> Frankly, I think this is an example of how our current shared memory
> model is a piece of garbage.

What other model(s) might work better?

Cheers,
David.
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