"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> There are a few old bits of code that still use MAKE_PTR/MAKE_OFFSET,
> but I think it's mostly just that no one's bothered to rewrite the code
> for SHM_QUEUE linked lists. The vast majority of our shmem structures
> use regular pointers, and have for years.
Ah, I happened to be recently in that code so I was mislead.
So even in EXEC_BACKEND we require that we can attach to the shared memory at
a specified location. hm.
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