On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 00:00, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Kevin Grittner
> <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
>>
>> Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Coundn't be predicate locking implementation in SSI be used for
>> > in-database cache invalidation.
>>
>> It would not necessarily be limited to *in-database* caches. The
>> main thing would be to design a good API to the predicate locking
>> portion of SSI, which I think is about 80% of the SSI code. Dan and
>> I both have an interest in such further use, and there have been
>> others who have talked about potential uses for the non-blocking
>> predicate locking. I think the API would need to be based around a
>> listen/notify model.
IIRC, I discussed this with Dan Ports at pgcon, as it was one of the
things he had been looking into as well. You might want to talk to him
about it.
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