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Re: PostgreSQL and HugePage

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: daveg <daveg@sonic.net>
Cc: Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-10-20T13:30:48Z
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:30 PM, daveg <daveg@sonic.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 04:08:37PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> On 20/10/10 16:05, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >shmget and friends are hugetlbpage  aware, so it seems it should 'just
>> >work'.
>> >
>>
>> Heh - provided you specify
>>
>> SHM_HUGETLB
>>
>>
>> in the relevant call that is :-)
>
> I had a patch for this against 8.3 that I could update if there is any
> interest. I suspect it is helpful.

I think it would be a good feature.  Of course, we would need
appropriate documentation, and some benchmarks showing that it really
works.

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Robert Haas
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