Re: FlexLocks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: FlexLocks
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Msg-id CA+Tgmoax_14rbx8Y6mmgvW64gCQL4ZviDzwEObXEMuiV=TwmxQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: FlexLocks  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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Re: FlexLocks
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
>> We could alternatively change one or the other of them to be a
>> struct with one member, but I think the cure might be worse than
>> the disease.  By my count, we are talking about saving perhaps as
>> many as 34 lines of code changes here, and that's only if
>> complicating the type handling doesn't require any changes to
>> places that are untouched at present, which I suspect it would.
>
> So I stepped through all the changes of this type, and I notice that
> most of them are in areas where we've talked about likely benefits
> of creating new FlexLock variants instead of staying with LWLocks;
> if any of that is done (as seems likely), it further reduces the
> impact from 34 lines.  If we take care of LWLockHeldByMe() as you
> describe, I'll concede the FlexLockId changes.

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