Re: add function for creating/attaching hash table in DSM registry - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

> On 10 Jun 2025, at 8:25 PM, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 07:47:02PM +0300, Florents Tselai wrote:
>> Love this new API.
>
> Thanks!
>
>> a minor typo here
>> + * current backend.  This function gurantees that only one backend
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> Fixed.
>
>> Since you made the first step towards decoupling DSMR_NAME_LEN from NAMEDATALEN;
>> is it worth considering increasing this to 128 maybe?
>>
>> I´ve used DSMR extensively for namespacing keys etc, and I´ve come close to 50-60 chars at times.
>>
>> I´m not too fixed on that though.
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> Seems fine to me.
>
> --
> nathan
> <v5-0001-simplify-creating-hash-table-in-dsm-registry.patch>

While trying to port some existing DSMR code, I came across this limitation:

How can one dsa_allocate in the same area as the returned dshash_table ?
in other words: shouldn't the state->dsa_handle be returned somehow ?