On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote:
I also didn't find anything that looked like our
memory context paradigm, and in particular the ability to cheaply
reset a context, in any other allocator.
You probably knew this but just in case the term for this
On 05/06/2014 04:04 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Over the last several months, I've been working on a new memory
allocator for PostgreSQL. While it's not done, and there are
problems, I think I've reached the point where it makes sense to get
this out in front of a wider audience and get some
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
hlinnakan...@vmware.com wrote:
As a generic remark, I wish that whatever parallel algorithms we will use
won't need a lot of ad hoc memory allocations from shared memory. Even
though we have dynamic shared memory now, complex data structures
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Greg Stark st...@mit.edu wrote:
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote:
I also didn't find anything that looked like our
memory context paradigm, and in particular the ability to cheaply
reset a context, in any other allocator.
On 6 May 2014 14:49, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
hlinnakan...@vmware.com wrote:
As a generic remark, I wish that whatever parallel algorithms we will use
won't need a lot of ad hoc memory allocations from shared memory. Even
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Simon Riggs si...@2ndquadrant.com wrote:
1. Segments are relocatable, so you can't actually use absolute
pointers. Maybe someday we'll have a facility for dynamic shared
memory segments that are mapped at the same address in every process,
or maybe not, but
