On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 16:39 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> > What is the best way of restricting the hash table to a maximum size?
>
> There is nothing in dynahash that will enforce a maximum size against
> calling code that's not cooperating; and I'll resist any attempt to
> add such a thing, because it would create a serialization point across
> the whole hashtable.
No problem, just checking with you where you'd like stuff put.
> If you know that you need at most N entries in the hash table, you can
> preallocate that many at startup (note the second arg to ShmemInitHash)
> and be safe. If your calling code might go past that, you'll need to
> fix the calling code.
It's easy enough to count em on the way in and count em on the way out.
-- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com