Re: Remove HeapTuple and Buffer dependency for predicate locking functions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Munro
Subject Re: Remove HeapTuple and Buffer dependency for predicate locking functions
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Msg-id CA+hUKGLbRZV-o6Eq=9HA_4H-TSWo4yVaUBmbkEXt32zf=TN5mw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Remove HeapTuple and Buffer dependency for predicate locking functions  (Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io>)
Responses Re: Remove HeapTuple and Buffer dependency for predicate locking functions  (Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io>)
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On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 6:53 AM Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io> wrote:
>>> - I wonder if CheckForSerializableConflictOutNeeded() shouldn't have a
>>>   portion of it's code as a static inline. In particular, it's a shame
>>>   that we currently perform external function calls at quite the
>>>   frequency when serializable isn't even in use.
>>
>> I am not sure on portion of the code part? SerializationNeededForRead() is static inline function in C file. Can't
inlineCheckForSerializableConflictOutNeeded() without moving SerializationNeededForRead() and some other variables to
headerfile. CheckForSerializableConflictOut() wasn't inline either, so a function call was performed earlier as well
whenserializable isn't even in use. 

I agree that it's strange that we do these high frequency function
calls just to figure out that we're not even using this stuff, which
ultimately comes down to the static global variable MySerializableXact
being not reachable from (say) an inline function defined in a header.
That's something to look into in another thread.

> Attaching re-based version of the patches on top of current master, which has the fix for HOT serializable predicate
lockingbug spotted by Andres committed now. 

I'm planning to commit these three patches on Monday.  I've attached
versions with whitespace-only changes from pgindent, and commit
messages lightly massaged and updated to point to this discussion and
reviewers.

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