Re: SSI patch version 14 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: SSI patch version 14
Date
Msg-id 1296046882.24767.1166.camel@ebony
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In response to Re: SSI patch version 14  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: SSI patch version 14  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:36 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:

> Pounding for hours on 16 CPU box sounds good. What diagnostics or
> instrumentation are included with the patch? How will we know whether
> pounding for hours is actually touching all relevant parts of code? I've
> done such things myself only to later realise I wasn't actually testing
> the right piece of code.

An example of this is the XIDCACHE_DEBUG code used in procarray.c to
validate TransactionIdIsInProgress().

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