Hi,
On 2018-03-19 01:52:41 +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> I do agree with that. We have a working well-understood dsm-based
> solution, addressing the goals initially explained in this thread.
Well, it's also awkward and manual to use. I do think that's something
we've to pay attention to.
> I wonder how much of this patch would be affected by the switch from dsm
> to mmap? I guess the memory limit would get mostly irrelevant (mmap
> would rely on the OS to page the memory in/out depending on memory
> pressure), and so would the UNLOAD/RELOAD commands (because each backend
> would do it's own mmap).
Those seem fairly major.
Greetings,
Andres Freund