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Re: SSI patch version 14

David Fetter <david@fetter.org>

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From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Ports <drkp@csail.mit.edu>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, simon@2ndquadrant.com, markus@bluegap.ch, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-02-09T15:16:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:09:48PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> If we don't allocate all the memory up front, does that allow memory
> to be dynamically shared between different hash tables in shared
> memory?  I'm thinking not, but...
> 
> Frankly, I think this is an example of how our current shared memory
> model is a piece of garbage.

What other model(s) might work better?

Cheers,
David.
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