Re: Do we need a ShmList implementation?

"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
>> I'm not excited about inventing an API with just one use-case;
>> it's unlikely that you actually end up with anything generally
>> useful.  (SHM_QUEUE seems like a case in point...)  Especially
>> when there are so many other constraints on what shared memory is
>> usable for.  You might as well just do this internally to the
>> SERIALIZABLEXACT management code.
>  
> Fair enough.  I'll probably abstract it within the SSI patch
> anyway, just because it will keep the other code cleaner where the
> logic is necessarily kinda messy anyway, and I think it'll reduce
> the chance of weird memory bugs.  I just won't get quite so formal
> about the interface.
OK, I'd say it's a little rough yet, but it works.  Is this
reasonable?:
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=users/kgrittn/postgres.git;a=commitdiff;h=b8eca245ab63725d0fbfc3b5969f4a17fc765f2c
In particular, I'm a little squeamish about how I allocated the
shared memory for the list, but I couldn't think of anything that
seemed better.
-Kevin