Re: Discontent with development process (was:Re: pgaccess

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Myron Scott wrote:

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> Tom Lane wrote:
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> >With a little more intelligence in the manager of this table, this could
> >also solve my concern about pointer variables.  Perhaps the entries
> >could include not just address/size but some type information.  If the
> >manager knows "this variable is a pointer to a palloc'd string" then it
> >could do the Right Thing during fork.  Not sure offhand what the
> >categories would need to be, but we could derive those if anyone has
> >cataloged the variables that get passed down from postmaster to children.
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> >I don't think it needs to be a hashtable --- you wouldn't ever be doing
> >lookups in it, would you?  Just a simple list of things-to-copy ought to
> >do fine.
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> >

> I'm thinking in a threaded context where a method may need to lookup a
> global that is not passed in.  But for copying, I suppose no lookups
> would be neccessary.

if we can, can we keep the whole 'threaded' concept in mind when
developing this ... if going a hashtable would be required for this, let's
go the more complete route and eliminate potential issues down the road
...