Re: myProcLocks initialization - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: myProcLocks initialization
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Msg-id 8133.1320092565@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to myProcLocks initialization  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Revised patch attached. �I think it would be useful to assert this
>> both at process startup time and at process shutdown, since it would
>> really be much nicer to have the process that didn't clean up fail the
>> assertion, rather than the new one that innocently inherited its slot;
>> so the attached patch takes that approach.

> Something stronger than an assertion at shutdown? Run-time test?

There's currently no evidence to suggest this will ever fire at all,
especially not in non-development builds, so an assert seems enough
to me.
        regards, tom lane


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