Re: Latches API on windows

Thanks for the suggestion.

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 9 October 2017 at 21:26, Abbas Butt <abbas(dot)butt(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >> In my case this is not true, I am calling InitSharedLatch in _PG_init
> >> which gets called at CREATE EXTENSION time.
> >> My question : Is there a way to get the latches API work on windows
> >> the way it is working on Linux?
>
> > I suspect you'd need to do it by having your extension load via
> > shared_preload_libraries, registering its latch in shmem_startup_hook
>
> Yeah. That would also let you request your shared memory area honestly,
> instead of relying on there being some slop in the initial allocation.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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