Re: 8.0.X and the ARC patent - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 8.0.X and the ARC patent
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Msg-id 2716.1109965347@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 8.0.X and the ARC patent  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Checkpoint doesn't request new buffers, but it does require the
> BufMgrLock in order to write all of the dirty buffers.

There is no BufMgrLock anymore in the clock-algorithm code, so I'm not
sure how much of this analysis is still relevant.
        regards, tom lane


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