Re: New feature proposal

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Marc Munro <marc(at)bloodnok(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: New feature proposal
Date: 2006-05-19 16:02:18
Message-ID: 446DEC0A.7090500@pse-consulting.de
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Marc Munro wrote:
> Veil http://pgfoundry.org/projects/veil is currently not a very good
> Postgres citizen. It steals what little shared memory it needs from
> postgres' shared memory using ShmemAlloc().
>
> For Postgres 8.2 I would like Veil to be a better citizen and use only
> what shared memory has been reserved for postgres add-ins.

Why should this be individually restricted? AFAICS Veil's functionality
would be essential to access row level ACL controlled tables, so if it
fails for low mem conditions it's much like a backend failure.

Regards,
Andreas

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