Claudio Natoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wasn't suggesting that we somehow put the Dllist in shared memory. I was > advocating completely replacing the BackendList dlllist with this array, > under both Win32 and *nix case.
Right, that's what I understood you to be proposing, and I dislike it on robustness grounds. One of the most important functions of the postmaster is to survive backend crashes --- as soon as you put any of its state where backends could clobber it, you compromise that function. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])