Re: replacing shmem

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Valter Mazzola" <txian(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: replacing shmem
Date: 2001-01-06 03:52:56
Message-ID: 16325.978753176@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Valter Mazzola" <txian(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> Is there a way to replace the shmem and sem (ipc.c) to use files. In this
> way we can have a sort of a parallel server using GFS.

Unless GFS offers access bandwidth approaching main memory speeds, this
idea is sheer folly :-(

regards, tom lane

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