Re: Snapshot synchronization, again...

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Snapshot synchronization, again...
Date: 2011-02-22 14:50:43
Message-ID: AANLkTin5sVFj+Yov=tR5487DTpMgWD9Ad=PuopiPh_f+@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> Oh.  Well that's really silly.  At that point you might as well just
>> store the snapshot and an integer identifier in shared memory, right?
>
> Yes, that's the point I was trying to make. I believe the idea of a hash was
> that it takes less memory than storing the whole snapshot (and more
> importantly, a fixed amount of memory per snapshot). But I'm not convinced
> either that dealing with a hash is any less troublesome.

OK, sorry for taking a while to get the point.

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Robert Haas
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