| From: | "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)tocr(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Kevin Murphy <murphy(at)genome(dot)chop(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues? |
| Date: | 2008-10-15 18:10:56 |
| Message-ID: | 48F63230.1070208@tocr.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I think the subtext there is that the Linux kernel hackers hate the SysV
> IPC APIs and wish they'd go away. They are presently constrained from
> removing 'em by their desire for POSIX compliance, but you won't get
> them to make any changes that might result in those APIs becoming more
> widely used :-(
>
> Mind you, I find the SysV APIs uselessly baroque too, but there is one
> feature that we have to have that is not in mmap(): the ability to
> detect other processes attached to a shmem block.
Didn't we solve this problem on Windows? Can we do a similar thing in
Unix and get ride of the SysV stuff?
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