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Re: introduce dynamic shared memory registry

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2024-01-12T19:45:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:13:46PM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> At 2024-01-12 11:21:52 -0600, nathandbossart@gmail.com wrote:
>> +      Each backend sould obtain a pointer to the reserved shared memory by
> 
> sould → should

D'oh.  Thanks.

>> +      Add-ins can reserve LWLocks on server startup.  Like with shared memory,
> 
> (Would "As with shared memory" read better? Maybe, but then again maybe
> it should be left alone because you also write "Unlike with" elsewhere.)

I think "As with shared memory..." sounds better here.

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Nathan Bossart
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Commits

  1. Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in GetNamedDSMSegment().

  2. Teach autoprewarm to use the dynamic shared memory registry.

  3. Introduce the dynamic shared memory registry.

  4. doc: Reorganize section for shared memory and LWLocks.