Hi, On 2018-03-19 01:52:41 +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote: > I do agree with that. We have a working well-understood dsm-based > solution, addressing the goals initially explained in this thread.
Well, it's also awkward and manual to use. I do think that's something we've to pay attention to. > I wonder how much of this patch would be affected by the switch from dsm > to mmap? I guess the memory limit would get mostly irrelevant (mmap > would rely on the OS to page the memory in/out depending on memory > pressure), and so would the UNLOAD/RELOAD commands (because each backend > would do it's own mmap). Those seem fairly major. Greetings, Andres Freund
