On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 2:04 AM Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> wrote:
> ok. What I missed is that BufferDesc.state is declared as pg_atomic_uint32
> rather than plain int, so the pg_atomic_...() functions should be used
> regardless the buffer is shared or local. Sorry for the noise.
Right. I thought, though, that your question was why we did it that
way instead of just declaring them as uint32. I'm not sure it's very
important, but I think that question hasn't really been answered.
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