Re: Listen / Notify rewrite

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:25:05PM +0100, Joachim Wieland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Attached is a patch for a new listen/notify implementation.
>
> In a few words, the patch reimplements listen/notify as an slru-based queue
> which works similar to the sinval structure. Essentially it is a ring buffer on
> disk with pages mapped into shared memory for read/write access.

While I can't really comment on the implementation, from your
description it looks like a big improvement.

Nice work!

Have a nice day,
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