Re: Unneeded volatile qualifier in fmgr.c - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: Unneeded volatile qualifier in fmgr.c
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In response to Re: Unneeded volatile qualifier in fmgr.c  (Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Unneeded volatile qualifier in fmgr.c
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 08:41:34AM +0000, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 04:25:38PM +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
>> While reading some code in fmgr.c I noticed that the save_nestlevel variable is
>> declared as volatile.  I'm assuming that's because a long time ago it was
>> modified in the PG_TRY / PG_CATCH block but it doesn't look needed anymore.
>> 
>> Trivial patch attached.
> 
> Yeah, makes sense to me.

It was modified in the PG_CATCH section when it was first added in commit
2abae34, but that part was removed a week later in commit 82a4798.  But I'm
not even sure it needed the volatile marker in the first commit, based on
the comment in elog.h:

 * Note: if a local variable of the function containing PG_TRY is modified
 * in the PG_TRY section and used in the PG_CATCH section, that variable
 * must be declared "volatile" for POSIX compliance.

AFAICT it was never modified in the PG_TRY section.

In any case, I don't see a problem with removing "volatile" now, so I'll
plan on committing this later today if there are no objections.

-- 
nathan



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