| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_shmem_allocations view |
| Date: | 2014-08-18 16:33:44 |
| Message-ID: | 4523.1408379624@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2014-08-18 12:27:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Should we consider putting it into an extension rather than having
>> it in the core system? That would offer some additional protection
>> for production systems, which really shouldn't have much need for
>> this IMO.
> I'd considered that somewhere upthread and decided that it'd require
> exposing to much internals from shmem.c/dsm.c without a corresponding
> benefit.
Well, we could have the implementation code in those modules but not
provide any SQL-level access to it without installing an extension.
The only extra thing visible in the .h files would be a function or two.
regards, tom lane
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