On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2017-08-15 20:30:16 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> > Interesting. I was apparently thinking slightly differently. I'd have
>> > thought we'd have Session struct in statically allocated shared
>> > memory. Which'd then have dsa_handle, dshash_table_handle, ... members.
>>
>> Sounds an awful lot like what we're already doing with PGPROC.
>
> Except it'd be shared between leader and workers. So no, not really.
There's precedent for using it that way, though - cf. group locking.
And in practice you're going to need an array of the same length as
the procarray. It's maybe not quite the same thing, but it smells
pretty similar.
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