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That induces disk I/O overhead (even if it somehow doesn't impact IPC performance)


The file doesn’t have to be disk-backed.


Don't you need something mounted for that?


No, you can use a memfd.


And `/dev/shm/` (which postgres uses by default on most Unix platforms)


It doesnt. Processes can share memory




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