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Re: Discarding relations from FSM


  • From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>
  • To: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
  • Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Discarding relations from FSM
  • Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:15:20 +0300
  • Message-id: <1127632521(dot)4865(dot)58(dot)camel(at)fuji(dot)krosing(dot)net>

On L, 2005-09-24 at 19:32 -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:21:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Of course maybe a better question is why we even limit based on the
> > > number of relations...
> > 
> > Shared memory is fixed-size.
> 
> True, but can't the fixed memory required per-relation just be shared
> with the fixed memory used to store free pages?
> 
> Though, the idea mentioned recently of just using one shared memory
> segment for everything and allocating dynamically within that probably
> makes more sense...

I guess that communicating those changes to all running backends may be
expensive.

-- 
Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>




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