Re: Shared Memory and Mac OS X

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jerry LeVan <jerry(dot)levan(at)eku(dot)edu>
Cc: Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Shared Memory and Mac OS X
Date: 2005-02-22 04:01:03
Message-ID: 5113.1109044863@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jerry LeVan <jerry(dot)levan(at)eku(dot)edu> writes:
> There have been some recent discussions on Shared Memory problems
> in Darwin on the darwin-kernel list at lists.apple.com.

> The subject is : shm_open and mmap: Invalid argument?

> Tain't clear to me if this is relevant to the MacOS X and
> Postgresql shared memory problem that I see mentioned here
> from time to time... ( some of the discussion centers on
> releasing the segments).

Executive summary seems to be: the thread originator hit some of the
bugs that Darwin has with SysV shared memory, decided to try POSIX
shared memory instead, and found that that sucks even worse :-(
It certainly didn't inspire me to consider switching.

regards, tom lane

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