Re: logfile rotation

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: logfile rotation
Date: 2004-06-13 17:18:55
Message-ID: 40CC8C7F.8060104@pse-consulting.de
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Tom Lane wrote:

>I'll repeat what I said in response to your other posting:
>
>
Hm? I never posted something with shared mem usage before, what do you mean?

>This uses a shared memory area with no lock, which seems a bad design;
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>

AFAICS there should be no lock necessary.

>We agreed long ago that the
>postmaster should never depend on the correctness of any shared memory
>data structure; but this patch would make it do so.
>
>
I understand that, so what's the suggested way to store data common for
all backends?

Regards,
Andreas

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