Do a web search on setting shared memory the hard way, and I think you'll see what you really need to do. -- Jay
Sent from my iPad > On Nov 10, 2016, at 5:57 PM, leoaaryan <leoaar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am a newbie to databases and Postgres and I am trying to analyze the shared > memory being calculated and allocated by Postgres in the method > "CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores" for different major versions for different > postgres.conf file > > My idea was to create a utility in Postgres and calll out the methods like > BufferShmemSize(), LockShmemSize() etc being used in the > CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores() to find the value. > > Till now what I have done: I have created a new utility and am trying to > link the src/backend code to it but I'm not able to get it working > correctly. > > Is there any other interest idea / way where I use a postgres.conf file to > calculate the above mentioned shared memory value ? > > I have found this discussion thread from the past but haven't made much > sense to me in terms of where to look. > Old discussion thread: > http://postgresql.nabble.com/postgresql-conf-basic-analysis-tool-td1948070.html > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://postgresql.nabble.com/Shared-memory-estimation-for-postgres-tp5929868.html > Sent from the PostgreSQL - hackers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers