On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. what about fifo files...would they be appropriate for something like this? merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
