From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Matthew Kirkwood <matthew(at)hairy(dot)beasts(dot)org>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: A patch for xlog.c |
Date: | 2001-02-25 21:17:40 |
Message-ID: | 200102252117.QAA02248@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > > Yes, but typical SysV shared memory limits are much lower than
> > > > per-process limits.
> > >
> > > well, come up with suitable patches for v7.2 and we can see where it goes
> > > ... you seem to think mmap() will do what we require, but, so far, have
> > > been unable to convince anyone to dedicate the time to converting to using
> > > it. "having to raise/set SysV limits", IMHO, isn't worth the overhaul
> > > that I see having to happen, but, if you can show us the benefits of doing
> > > it other then removing a 'one time administrative config' of an OS, I
> > > imagine that nobody will be able to argue it ...
> >
> > Yea, it is pretty low priority, especially since most OS's don't support
> > ANON mmap(). Most BSD's support it, but I don't think Linux or others
> > do.
>
> ah, then not a low priority, a non-starter, period ... maybe when all the
> OSs we support move to supporting ANON mmap() :(
Yea, we would have to take a poll to see if the majority support it.
Right now, I think it is clearly a minority, and not worth the added
confusion for a few platforms.
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