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

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: "Imseih (AWS), Sami" <simseih@amazon.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-07-17T16:29:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 02:04:17PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> Here's a new version of the patch with the GUC renamed to
> num_os_semaphores.

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).

-- 
nathan

Commits

  1. Introduce num_os_semaphores GUC.

  2. Fix documentation for POSIX semaphores.

  3. Fix documentation for System V semaphores.