Re: c function: keep objects in memory for all session or all transaction

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Christian Gonzalez <christian(dot)gonzalez(at)sigis(dot)com(dot)ve>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: c function: keep objects in memory for all session or all transaction
Date: 2009-09-02 19:17:23
Message-ID: 4A9EC4C3.8090106@dunslane.net
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On ons, 2009-09-02 at 10:59 -0430, Christian Gonzalez wrote:
>
>> Is posible to put
>> persisten object in memory through postgresql c funtion?
>>
>
> Well, the PL/Perl and PL/Python languages do some variants of this using
> their GD and SD variables. So it's surely possible in C as well.
> Memory contexts are the right keyword, but note that if you use
> TopMemoryContext, you are pretty much just using malloc(). Maybe you
> want to try prototyping your functionality in PL/Perl or PL/Python to
> get it started.
>
>

But if you want something visible to all sessions, something like
pg_memcache might be what you need. see
<http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/pgmemcache/pgmemcache/README.pgmemcache?rev=1.11>
for some details.

cheers

andrew

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