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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: [HACKERS] New feature proposal
From:       Andreas Pflug <pgadmin () pse-consulting ! de>
Date:       2006-05-19 16:02:18
Message-ID: 446DEC0A.7090500 () pse-consulting ! de
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Marc Munro wrote:
> Veil http://pgfoundry.org/projects/veil is currently not a very good
> Postgres citizen.  It steals what little shared memory it needs from
> postgres' shared memory using ShmemAlloc().
> 
> For Postgres 8.2 I would like Veil to be a better citizen and use only
> what shared memory has been reserved for postgres add-ins.

Why should this be individually restricted? AFAICS Veil's functionality 
would be essential to access row level ACL controlled tables, so if it 
fails for low mem conditions it's much like a backend failure.

Regards,
Andreas

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