>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> Personally I'd feel more comfortable with a shared-lock Tom> approach, if we could work out the scalability issues. Dirty Tom> reads seem ... well ... dirty. Tom I was going to do some experiments to measure the costs of our shared memory MemoryContext. Is there something specific you'd be interested in ? My first goal is mainly to measure the amount of time it takes to allocate and deallocate shared memory in the contested and uncontested cases. -- Pip-pip Sailesh http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sailesh ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend