Re: reducing the overhead of frequent table locks, v4 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: reducing the overhead of frequent table locks, v4
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Msg-id BANLkTinUyGQP5ApN3=KmQ4AAUKdBjvCjhg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to reducing the overhead of frequent table locks, v4  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: reducing the overhead of frequent table locks, v4
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On 27 June 2011 15:13, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't get a lot of comments on my the previous version of my patch
> to accelerate table locks.
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-06/msg00953.php
>
> Here's a new version anyway.  In this version, I have:
>
> 1. Made pg_locks show fast-path locks as well as regular locks, with a
> new Boolean column to distinguish.
> 2. Renamed fpLWLock to backendLock, on the belief that we're going to
> want something like this for quite a bit more than just this one
> patch.
> 3. Removed some debugging code.

Are you able to benchmark this again, and possibly get Stefan to give
it a go too?

Thom


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