Re: Beta 1 Release Draft

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Beta 1 Release Draft
Date: 2013-05-03 00:52:45
Message-ID: 20130503005245.GE3374@momjian.us
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On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 04:53:24PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> In 9.3, PostgreSQL has switched from using SysV shared memory to using
> Posix shared memory and mmap for memory management. This allows easier
> installation and configuration of PostgreSQL, but means that we need our
> users to rigorously test and ensure that no memory management issues
> have been introduced by the change.

I am not aware of any additional memory testing available, unless you
are talkinga about mmap() perhaps being slower than SysV shared memory
on some operating systems. Is that it?

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