Re: Discarding relations from FSM

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Discarding relations from FSM
Date: 2005-09-25 00:32:25
Message-ID: 20050925003225.GU7630@pervasive.com
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On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:21:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Of course maybe a better question is why we even limit based on the
> > number of relations...
>
> Shared memory is fixed-size.

True, but can't the fixed memory required per-relation just be shared
with the fixed memory used to store free pages?

Though, the idea mentioned recently of just using one shared memory
segment for everything and allocating dynamically within that probably
makes more sense...
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