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Re: Do we need a ShmList implementation?

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-09-20T16:44:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 12:35 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> > Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> wrote:
> >> My understanding is that we used to have that and it was removed
> >> for the reasons Heikki states. There are still vestigial bits
> >> still in code.
> 
> There's nothing vestigial about SHM_QUEUE --- it's used by the lock
> manager. 

Yes, I was talking about an implementation that allocated memory as
well. There are sections of IFDEF'd out code there...

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