Tom Lane wrote: > If you are willing to run a hand-hacked version then I'd suggest doing > your experimentation with CVS HEAD. There are changes in place already > to reduce the stats file traffic. Why do we _have_ to write the file to disk? I wonder if it would work to store the file in a mmaped memory region and have the readers get data from there. We could have more than one copy, reference-counted so that they can be removed when the old readers are gone. Are MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS mmapped regions portable? Linux claims to support them from 2.4. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general