On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2015-09-08 14:15:32 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> We could do that, but I'm not sure just calling LWLockNewTrancheId()
>> for all of the tranches would be so bad either.
>
> To me that seems either fragile or annoying to use. If all backends call
> LWLockNewTrancheId() we need to a be sure the callbacks are always going
> to be called in the same order.
How is that going to work? The counter is in shared memory.
> Otherwise everyone needs to store the
> tranche in shared memory (like xlog.c now does) which I find to be a
> rather annoying requirement.
Yes, everyone would need to do that. If that's too annoying to live
with, then we can adopt your suggestion.
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