Re: Lua table in a shared memory segment

[Matthieu Tourne <matthieu.tourne@...>]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
> On 2012-05-31 19:19, Matthieu Tourne wrote:
>
>> I'm using a Lua project (Nginx Lua module), which exposes a Nginx
>> rbtree in a shared memory segment.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> But a memcache k/v interface is too limiting when writing complex data
>> structures.
>>
>> Is there a way I could create a Lua table in shared memory, or expose
>> a table like interface so I could store Lua object in my shm segment ?
>
>
> Did you look at http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule#ngx.shared.DICT ?

This is the same documentation for Nginx Lua that I sent a link to
(from the Nginx wiki instead of github).

I'm actually looking for a way to extend the functionality of
ngx.shared.DICT into a full fledged Lua table, not just a key/value
store.