Re: Escaping the ARC patent

From: "Bort, Paul" <pbort(at)tmwsystems(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Escaping the ARC patent
Date: 2005-02-05 17:14:12
Message-ID: 735D404BD9E7EB44B9CDFC27FC88809B0582D93F@mail2.tmwsystems.com
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>
> Just an idle thought, but each connection to the DB could add a fixed
> amount to some queueing parameter. The amount added to be set
> per backend,
> and the client could use a SET variable to adjust the
> standard amount for
> it's own backend. When the client dies/disconnects, the
> queueing parameter
> (whatever it is) would be reduced appropriately.
>

Wouldn't that require a SIGHUP on the postmaster with every connection?
(Because all of the backends need to know about the new buffer count)

Wouldn't that be bad?

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