Tom Lane wrote: > "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Mind you, I find the SysV APIs uselessly baroque too, but there is one > >> feature that we have to have that is not in mmap(): the ability to > >> detect other processes attached to a shmem block. > > > Didn't we solve this problem on Windows? > > Not terribly well --- see active thread on -hackers. We could allocate a small shared memory area to solve this and use mmap() for the other shared memory usage. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general