Re: [HACKERS] extension allocating shared memory

2012-04-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Kevin Grittner's message: >> What is the best way for an extension to allocate shared memory >> and to access it from every backend? > RequestAddinShmemSpace Perfect! That's exactly what I wanted. I see that the pg_stat_statements extension is already

Re: [HACKERS] extension allocating shared memory

2012-04-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Kevin Grittner's message of mar abr 17 16:27:21 -0300 2012: > What is the best way for an extension to allocate shared memory and to > access it from every backend? Or, if there is no support existing for > that, what advice do people have if I want to make that happen? I don't > n

[HACKERS] extension allocating shared memory

2012-04-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
What is the best way for an extension to allocate shared memory and to access it from every backend? Or, if there is no support existing for that, what advice do people have if I want to make that happen? I don't need a lot (probably 1KB would do). If this just "can't be done" I guess I could s