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Re: POSIX shared memory support


  • From: James Mansion <james(at)mansionfamily(dot)plus(dot)com>
  • To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: POSIX shared memory support
  • Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:37:45 +0100
  • Message-id: <47F13D89.2020309@mansionfamily.plus.com> <text/plain>

Tom Lane wrote:
Yeah, I would be far more interested in this patch if it avoided needing
SysV shmem at all.  The problem is to find an adequate substitute for
the nattch-based interlock against live children of a dead postmaster.

(confused) Why can't you use mmap of /dev/zero and inherit the fd into child processes? (simple enough to do something similar on Win32, even if the mechanism isn't identical)




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