Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 11:50 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> This needs a redesign before it can be considered committable. I don't
>> really care whether it makes things faster; it's too complicated and too
>> poorly documented to be maintainable.
> There are more than 60 lines of header comment explaining in detail how
> this works, with a full algorithmic analysis. The remaining code is
> commented to project standards, with easily more than 100 lines of
> comments.
If the comments were correct, I wouldn't be complaining. They're
misleading or outright wrong on many points. In particular, I don't
think you actually understand the weak-memory-ordering issue, because
the comments about that are entirely wrong. I don't think they are
adequate on other points either --- for example, I now understand why my
complaint of a few minutes ago about KnownAssignedXidsValid is wrong,
but the comments certainly didn't help me on that.
regards, tom lane
