Re: can we publish a aset interface?

2010/9/7 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> I don't see how you could do anything with this that you can't do with
>>> the existing implementation.  It's not as if you can store pointers
>>> into an mmap'd block and then count on them being valid the next time
>>> you map the file...  it might not end up at the same offset.
>>
>> you can, but you have to do preallocation and you have to use a FIXED flag.
>
> MAP_FIXED?  As TFM says: "Because requiring a fixed address for a
> mapping is less portable, the use of this option  is  discouraged."

yes, I know. This will be used for proprietary Czech language - 95% of
postgresql instalations are on Linux, 10% on MS Windows (in Czech
Republic)

I don't plan to try to move this module to core. And it's useless -
other languages has not our problems.

Regards

Pavel

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