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Subject: Re: Better shared data structure management and resizable shared data
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From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
To: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>,
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On 05/04/2026 23:06, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Here's patch version 12 [*]. I believe I've addressed all the feedback, 
> and I feel this is in pretty good shape now. There hasn't been any big 
> design changes lately.
> 
> One notable change is that I replaced the separate {request|init|attach} 
> _fn_arg fields in ShmemCallbacks with a single 'opaque_arg' field, and 
> added a brief comment to it. You both commented on whether we need that 
> at all, and maybe you're right that we don't, but at least it's now just 
> one field rather than three. As before, callers can simply ignore it if 
> they don't need it.

After another round of comment cleanups and such, committed. Thanks!

- Heikki