"Kevin Grittner" <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> writes: > Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> I'm still not convinced that using shared memory is a bad way to >>> pass these around. Surely we're not talking about large numbers >>> of them. What am I missing here? >> >> They're not of a very predictable size. > Surely you can predict that any snapshot is no larger than a fairly > small fixed portion plus sizeof(TransactionId) * MaxBackends?
No. See subtransactions. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers