Re: this is in plain text (row level locks)

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane  writes:
   Tom> Personally I'd feel more comfortable with a shared-lock   Tom> approach, if we could work out the scalability issues.  Dirty   Tom> reads seem ... well ...  dirty.

Tom

I was going to do some experiments to measure the costs of our shared
memory MemoryContext.

Is there something specific you'd be interested in ? My first goal is
mainly to measure the amount of time it takes to allocate and
deallocate shared memory in the contested and uncontested cases.

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