Re: windows shared memory error

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: windows shared memory error
Date: 2009-05-01 10:23:18
Message-ID: 937d27e10905010323y5e21eca2l8e0fc798bd22194b@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> Do we have any idea why "it may take a short while before it gets
> dropped from the global namespace"? Is there some demon running which
> only wakes up periodically? Or any specific reason it takes so long?
> That might give us a clue exactly how long to sleep for.

I can't find any info in a quick search. I don't see offhand why it
would take time - it's just reference counting handles held by
different processes.

> Is there any way to tell Windows to wake up and do its job? Or to
> block until its done?

Not that I'm aware of.

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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