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From Neil Conway
Subject Re: pgsql: Do all accesses to shared buffer headers
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In response to pgsql: Do all accesses to shared buffer headers through  (tgl@svr1.postgresql.org (Tom Lane))
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On Wed, 2005-12-10 at 13:45 -0300, Tom Lane wrote:
> Do all accesses to shared buffer headers through volatile-qualified
> pointers, to ensure that compilers won't rearrange accesses to occur
> while we're not holding the buffer header spinlock.

That is fairly error prone :-( Would it be possible to hide this in a
typedef?

-Neil

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