Friday, July 4, 2008

Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix a couple of bugs in win32 shmem name generation: * Don't cut

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:

> > According to what you just told me, the original coding is storing the
> > name in a "local namespace", which presumably means it won't conflict
> > anyway. Ergo, the existing coding is simply broken and there's nothing
> > we can do about it.
>
> Local namespace = Session local, not process local. So it would properly
> protect against two processes started in the same session. One session
> is, for example, an interactive login. But not if they were started by
> different users, since they'd be in different sessions.

But those different users would not have access to the same set of
files, so it wouldn't work anyway, right?

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