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Re: problems with "Shared Memory and Semaphores" section of docs

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "Imseih (AWS), Sami" <simseih@amazon.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-07-17T17:16:01Z
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Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
> The only thing stopping me from committing this right now is Tom's upthread
> objection about adding more GUCs that just expose values that you can't
> actually set.  If that objection still stands, I'll withdraw this patch
> (and maybe try introducing a new way to surface this information someday).

It still feels to me like not a great way to go about it.  Having
said that, it's not like we don't have any existing examples of
the category, so I won't cry hard if I'm outvoted.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Introduce num_os_semaphores GUC.

  2. Fix documentation for POSIX semaphores.

  3. Fix documentation for System V semaphores.