Re: Atomic ops for unlogged LSN - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: Atomic ops for unlogged LSN
Date
Msg-id 20231110205414.GC1315705@nathanxps13
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In response to Re: Atomic ops for unlogged LSN  (Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 03:27:33PM -0600, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> I wonder if it's worth providing a set of "locked read" functions.  Those
> could just do a compare/exchange with 0 in the generic implementation.  For
> patches like this one where the overhead really shouldn't matter, I'd
> encourage folks to use those to make it easy to reason about correctness.

I moved this proposal to a new thread [0].

[0] https://postgr.es/m/20231110205128.GB1315705%40nathanxps13

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