Re: dsm.c API tweak - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: dsm.c API tweak
Date
Msg-id 20170324233507.wek63deorm262zx7@alvherre.pgsql
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Responses Re: dsm.c API tweak  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Per 
> https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=11ma_Z1HoPxPcSCANnh5ykHORa=HcA1U1V1+5S_jwPuA@mail.gmail.com
> it seems that the dsm.c API is a bit inconvenient right now.  I proposed
> in the first patch in that thread to change the API so that a segment is
> marked as "pinned" if created with no ResourceOwner set as current;
> which is essentially the same as creating a fake one, then marking the
> segment as pinned.
> 
> Thomas agrees with me, so I propose this patch as preparatory work for
> the autovacuum/BRIN stuff I'm interested in.

Here's the proposed patch.

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