Thread: pgsql: Avoid O(N^2) behavior when the standby process releases many loc

Avoid O(N^2) behavior when the standby process releases many locks.

When replaying a transaction that held many exclusive locks on the
primary, a standby server's startup process would expend O(N^2)
effort on manipulating the list of locks.  This code was fine when
written, but commit 1cff1b95a made repetitive list_delete_first()
calls inefficient, as explained in its commit message.  Fix by just
iterating the list normally, and releasing storage only when done.
(This'd be inadequate if we needed to recover from an error occurring
partway through; but we don't.)

Back-patch to v13 where 1cff1b95a came in.

Nathan Bossart

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CD2F0E7F-9822-45EC-A411-AE56F14DEA9F@amazon.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6301c3adabd947394682e37c933b0f3f83353b28

Modified Files
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src/backend/storage/ipc/standby.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)