Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm of the opinion that the solution to FSM being fixed-size is to keep > it somewhere else, ie, on disk (possibly with some sort of cache in > shared memory for currently-used entries).
What do you think dynamic allocation from shared_buffers? ie, remove a buffer page in the shared buffer pool and use the 8kB of memory for another purpose. To be sure, we don't free from out-of-FSM-memory, but it can get rid of deciding the amount of FSM buffers. I think we could use the above as "shared memory allocator". It is useful for Dead Space Map, shared prepared statements, and so on. Regards, --- ITAGAKI Takahiro NTT Open Source Software Center ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match