Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 9 October 2017 at 21:26, Abbas Butt <abbas.butt@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> In my case this is not true, I am calling InitSharedLatch in _PG_init >> which gets called at CREATE EXTENSION time. >> My question : Is there a way to get the latches API work on windows >> the way it is working on Linux?
> I suspect you'd need to do it by having your extension load via > shared_preload_libraries, registering its latch in shmem_startup_hook
Yeah. That would also let you request your shared memory area honestly, instead of relying on there being some slop in the initial allocation.