Re: Copy data to DSA area

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 5:29 PM Ideriha, Takeshi
<ideriha.takeshi@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >From: Ideriha, Takeshi [mailto:ideriha.takeshi@jp.fujitsu.com]
> >Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 11:50 PM
> >Well, after developing PoC, I realized that this PoC doesn't solve the local process is
> >crashed before the context becomes shared because local process keeps track of
> >pointer to chunks.
> >Maybe all of you have already noticed and pointed out this case :) So it needs another
> >work but this poc is a good step for me to advance more.
>
> I think the point to prevent memory leak is allocating memory and storing its
> address into a structure at the same time. This structure should be trackable from
> other process.

I'm not sure that it's necessarily wrong to keep tracking information
in private memory.  If any backend crashes, the postmaster will
terminate all backends and reinitialise everything anyway, because
shared memory might be corrupted.


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Thomas Munro
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