Re: Posix Shared Mem patch

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "A.M." <agentm@themactionfaction.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-06-26T23:30:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"A.M." <agentm@themactionfaction.com> writes:
> On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:12 PM, Daniel Farina wrote:
>> I'm simply suggesting that for additional benefits it may be worth
>> thinking about getting around nattach and thus SysV shmem, especially
>> with regard to safety, in an open-ended way.

> I solved this via fcntl locking.

No, you didn't, because fcntl locks aren't inherited by child processes.
Too bad, because they'd be a great solution otherwise.

			regards, tom lane