Re: Fwd: 8.0 Beta3 worked, RC1 didn't!

Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gary Doades <[email protected]> writes:
> AFAIK Win32 does not care where in private process address space the 
> "shared memory" segment is. It can be mapped to different addresses in 
> different processes and still share the same physical address space. 
> This is why Win32 puts the private shared address anywhere in its own 
> address space, because it doesn't matter.

Win32 may not care, but we do.  The shared memory segment must be mapped
at the same address in every backend.

> If you try to force it to any particular private process address you may 
> fail as you don't always know where program code (DLLs etc.) may be loaded.

This is (or ought to be) irrelevant, because we are only talking about
instances of a single executable.

			regards, tom lane

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