Thread: [HACKERS] an outdated comment for hash_seq_init.

[HACKERS] an outdated comment for hash_seq_init.

From
Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
Date:
Hello.

While I looked into dynahash.c, I found that the following
sentense became outdated by 5dfc198. The commit removed the only
usage of hash_freeze().

> * NOTE: it is possible to use hash_seq_init/hash_seq_search without any
> * worry about hash_seq_term cleanup, if the hashtable is first locked against
> * further insertions by calling hash_freeze.  This is used by nodeAgg.c,
> * wherein it is inconvenient to track whether a scan is still open, and
> * there's no possibility of further insertions after readout has begun.

The attached patch removes the sentence begins with "This is used
by..".

regards,

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c b/src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c
index 12b1658..1adc5841 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c
@@ -1330,9 +1330,7 @@ hash_get_num_entries(HTAB *hashp) * * NOTE: it is possible to use hash_seq_init/hash_seq_search
withoutany * worry about hash_seq_term cleanup, if the hashtable is first locked against
 
- * further insertions by calling hash_freeze.  This is used by nodeAgg.c,
- * wherein it is inconvenient to track whether a scan is still open, and
- * there's no possibility of further insertions after readout has begun.
+ * further insertions by calling hash_freeze. * * NOTE: to use this with a partitioned hashtable, caller had better
hold* at least shared lock on all partitions of the table throughout the scan! 

Re: [HACKERS] an outdated comment for hash_seq_init.

From
Robert Haas
Date:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:55 AM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
<horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> While I looked into dynahash.c, I found that the following
> sentense became outdated by 5dfc198. The commit removed the only
> usage of hash_freeze().
>
>> * NOTE: it is possible to use hash_seq_init/hash_seq_search without any
>> * worry about hash_seq_term cleanup, if the hashtable is first locked against
>> * further insertions by calling hash_freeze.  This is used by nodeAgg.c,
>> * wherein it is inconvenient to track whether a scan is still open, and
>> * there's no possibility of further insertions after readout has begun.
>
> The attached patch removes the sentence begins with "This is used
> by..".

Committed.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company



Re: [HACKERS] an outdated comment for hash_seq_init.

From
Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
Date:
At Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:00:16 -0400, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote in
<CA+TgmobU=F1JtGZ+bL91D7sE2+cBybmJ+WMQdmTT0cyV2dvO0Q@mail.gmail.com>
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:55 AM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
> <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> > While I looked into dynahash.c, I found that the following
> > sentense became outdated by 5dfc198. The commit removed the only
> > usage of hash_freeze().
> >
> >> * NOTE: it is possible to use hash_seq_init/hash_seq_search without any
> >> * worry about hash_seq_term cleanup, if the hashtable is first locked against
> >> * further insertions by calling hash_freeze.  This is used by nodeAgg.c,
> >> * wherein it is inconvenient to track whether a scan is still open, and
> >> * there's no possibility of further insertions after readout has begun.
> >
> > The attached patch removes the sentence begins with "This is used
> > by..".
> 
> Committed.

Thanks.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center