Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> writes:
> So, the big question is, how do we do this? The most obvious way (to
> me) is to keep the whole array inside the PGPROC struct.
> ...
> The main downside is that it potentially
> requires a lot of shared memory. Can we afford that?
No. Shared memory is fixed size, therefore the above is guaranteed to
fail.
I thought we had devised a solution that did not require expansible
shared memory for this. Bruce, Manfred, do you recall how that went?
regards, tom lane