Re: pg_shmem_allocations view

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_shmem_allocations view
Date: 2014-08-15 08:20:35
Message-ID: 20140815082035.GB28805@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-08-15 11:12:11 +0300, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > Ok. A new version of the patches implementing that are
> > attached. Including a couple of small fixups and docs. The latter aren't
> > extensive, but that doesn't seem to be warranted anyway.
>
> Is it really actually useful to expose the segment off(set) to users?
> Seems to me like unnecessary internal details leaking out.

Yes. This is clearly developer oriented and I'd more than once wished I
could see where some stray pointer is pointing to... That's not really
possible without something like this.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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