On 04-05-2014 08:44, Andres Freund wrote: > I've more than once wanted to know what allocated shared memory in > postgres installation is used for. Especially with more an more > extensions around that's quite useful. > A few years ago I had to provide such information an did something similar. Is it useful? Yes. However, it is a developer's feature.
> On 2014-05-04 13:44:17 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > Thinking about this, I think it was a mistake to not add a 'name' field > to dynamic shared memory's dsm_control_item. Right now it's very hard to > figure out which extension allocated a dsm segment. Imo we should change > that before 9.4 is out. I am not suggesting to use it to identify > segments, but just as an identifier, passed in into dsm_create(). > +1. > Imo there should be a corresponding pg_dynshmem_allocations to > pg_shmem_allocations. > ... or another boolean column (say 'dynamic') and just one view. -- Euler Taveira Timbira - http://www.timbira.com.br/ PostgreSQL: Consultoria, Desenvolvimento, Suporte 24x7 e Treinamento -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
