Re: ToDo: preload for fulltext dictionary

2010/2/16 Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>:
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> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The dictionary data could be shared or minimally dictionary could be
>> preloaded like some PL language.
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>> What do you think about this?
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> Surely preloading is the most realistic approach, but I hope we would support
> dynamic allocation of shared memory, and load dictionaries in the area and
> share it with backends. We should avoid additonal calls of shmget() or mmap()
> in the additional shared memory allocation, but we can shrink shared buffers
> and reuse the area for general purposes. We often have serveral GB of shared
> buffers nowadays, so dividing some MB of buffers will not be problem.
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I am for all solution, but using a shared memory isn't realistic now,
and can be a problem on MS Windows. More - it can be difficult with
some special custom non ro dictionaries.

Regards
Pavel

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> Takahiro Itagaki
> NTT Open Source Software Center
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