Re: patch: preload dictionary new version

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-08T09:53:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Takahiro Itagaki
<itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> This patch allocates memory with non-file-based mmap() to preload text search
> dictionary files at the server start. Note that dist files are not mmap'ed
> directly in the patch; mmap() is used for reallocatable shared memory.

I thought someone (Tom?) had proposed idea previously of writing a
dictionary precompiler that would produce a file which could then be
mmap()'d into the backend.  Has any thought been given to that
approach?

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