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Re: Re-thing PG_MODULE_MAGIC

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: josh@agliodbs.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-06-16T13:51:41Z
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On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 20:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > I just noticed (the hard way) that in 8.2CVS, the PG_MODULE_MAGIC header is 
> > now *required* for all loadable modules.   This includes non-pg modules, 
> > such as Solaris' libumem (performance improvement for malloc).
> 
> What is libumem and why are you trying to load it as a dynamic module?

http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix01/full_papers/bonwick/bonwick_html/index.html

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