On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:52:48PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> There aren't going to be all that many data pages needing the COW
> treatment, because the postmaster uses very little data space of its
> own. I think this would become an issue if we tried to have the
> postmaster pre-cache catalog information for backends, however (see
> my post elsewhere in this thread).
Would that pre-cached data not be placed in a SHM segment? Such
segments don't do COW, so this would be a non-issue.
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Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> http://em.ca/~bruceg/