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Re: Buffer Management

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>, "J. R. Nield" <jrnield@usol.com>, PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-06-25T14:55:54Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > This will also work well when we have non-SysV semaphore support, like
> > Posix semaphores, so we would be able to run with no SysV stuff.
> 
> You do realize that we can use Posix semaphores today?  The Darwin (OS X)
> port uses 'em now.  That's one reason I am more interested in mmap as

No, I didn't realize we had gotten that far.

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