Re: [PATCHES] Feature: POSIX Shared memory support, round 2

2007-02-09 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Marcellino [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is a new patch that uses the POSIX api's. It encodes the canonical path (see 'man realpath') of the database's data directory into the shared memory segment name using an strong hash function to make it fit in the shared memory segment name

[PATCHES] Feature: POSIX Shared memory support, round 2

2007-02-08 Thread Chris Marcellino
As discussed earlier, using POSIX shared memory can solve a few issues, On Mac OS X and other BSD's, the default System V shared memory limits are often very low and require adjustment for acceptable performance. Particularly, when Postgres is included as part of larger end-user friendly