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

Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote:
> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> 
>     Tom> Sailesh Krishnamurthy <sailesh@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
>     >> Why not have the traditional approach of a lock table in shared
>     >> memory, growing and shrinking as appropriate,
> 
>     Tom> Because we can't grow shared memory.  Whatever size we get at
>     Tom> startup is what we're stuck with.  (I suppose we could try
>     Tom> asking the kernel for additional segments, but there's every
>     Tom> likelihood that that will fail.)
> 
> We implemented a Shared Memory MemoryContext using OSSP libmm (used in
> Apache) for TelegraphCQ. 
> 
> If you think it's useful I can submit it as a patch.
> 
> -- 
> Pip-pip
> Sailesh
> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sailesh
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Watch out, that code from Berkeley usually is a mess.  :-)

Seriously, though, it would be good to see what you guys are up to.

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