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POSIX shmem in PostgreSQL

POSIX shmem in PostgreSQL

Posted Sep 29, 2009 19:50 UTC (Tue) by alvherre (subscriber, #18730)
In reply to: The realtime preemption mini-summit by nix
Parent article: The realtime preemption mini-summit

It's not just history. In fact, a patch was posted to add support for POSIX shmem, but as it turns out, the POSIX API is not complete enough for PostgreSQL's purposes. See here, for instance: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-02/msg0...


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POSIX shmem in PostgreSQL

Posted Sep 29, 2009 22:47 UTC (Tue) by alvherre (subscriber, #18730) [Link]

BTW, mmap does not work either.

POSIX shmem in PostgreSQL

Posted Sep 30, 2009 15:14 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Oh, curses. We need a POSIX syscall that does what lsof/fuser do, really.

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