Re: PostgreSQL Process memory architecture

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Ben Zeev, Lior" <lior(dot)ben-zeev(at)hp(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Process memory architecture
Date: 2013-05-27 12:27:46
Message-ID: 20130527122746.GJ8597@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Atri Sharma (atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> > There's a bit of other information shared, but disk buffers are
> > certainly the bulk of it.
>
> The other information being locks?

Depends, but yes. Per-row locks are actually in the disk cache portion
of shared buffers, but heavyweight locks have their own area.

Thanks,

Stephen

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