Re: Tracking wait event for latches - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Tracking wait event for latches
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZuyw8A=r=2VnGeOc0uow0TyN-QbzazkiX_BwStd6tj=w@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Tracking wait event for latches  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
Responses Python3.4 detection on 9.6 configuration  (Lou Picciano <loupicciano@comcast.net>)
Re: Tracking wait event for latches  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Thomas Munro
>> <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>> Ok, if they really are independent then shouldn't we take advantage of
>>> that at call sites where we might be idle but we might also be waiting
>>> for the network?
>>
>> I certainly didn't intend for them to be independent, and I don't
>> think they should be.  I think it should be a hierarchy - as it is
>> currently.  I think it's a bad idea to introduce the notational
>> overhead of having to pass through two integers rather than one
>> everywhere, and a worse idea to encourage people to think of the
>> wait_event_type and wait_event are related any way other than
>> hierarchically.
>
> So should I change back the patch to have only one argument for the
> eventId, and guess classId from it?

Why would you need to guess?  But, yes, I think one argument is much preferable.

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