Re: problems with "Shared Memory and Semaphores" section of docs

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Imseih (AWS), Sami" <simseih(at)amazon(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: problems with "Shared Memory and Semaphores" section of docs
Date: 2024-05-17 19:21:23
Message-ID: 20240517192123.GA1933425@nathanxps13
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On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 12:48:37PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 01:09:55PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> At a bare minimum, we should probably fix the obvious problems, but I
>>> wonder if we could simplify this section a bit, too.
>>
>> Yup. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and
>> over and expecting different results." Time to give up on documenting
>> these things in such detail. Anybody who really wants to know can
>> look at the source code.
>
> Cool. I'll at least fix the back-branches as-is, but I'll see about
> revamping this stuff for v18.

Attached is probably the absolute least we should do for the back-branches.

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Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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