Re: patch: preload dictionary new version
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-12T04:02:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com> writes: > 2010/7/8 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>: >> For example, the dictionary-load code could automatically execute >> the precompile step if it observed that the precompiled copy of the >> dictionary was missing or had an older file timestamp than the source. > There might be a problem in automatic precompiler -- Where should we > save the result? OS users of postgres servers don't have write-permission > to $PGSHARE in normal cases. Instead, we can store the precompiled > result to $PGDATA/pg_dict_cache or so. Yeah. Actually we'd *have* to do something like that because $PGSHARE should contain only architecture-independent files, while the precompiled files would presumably have dependencies on endianness etc. regards, tom lane