Reserve zero as an invalid DSM handle.

Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>

Commit: b40b4dd9e10ea701c8d47ccba9407fc32ed384e5
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-11-15T21:33:29Z
Releases: 10.0
Reserve zero as an invalid DSM handle.

Previously, the handle for the control segment could not be zero, but
some other DSM segment could potentially have a handle value of zero.
However, that means that if someone wanted to store a dsm_handle that
might or might not be valid, they would need a separate boolean to
keep track of whether the associated value is legal.  That's annoying,
so change things so that no DSM segment can ever have a handle of 0 -
or as we call it here, DSM_HANDLE_INVALID.

Thomas Munro.  This was submitted as part of a much larger patch to
add an malloc-like allocator for dynamic shared memory, but this part
seems like a good idea independently of the rest of the patch.

Files

PathChange+/−
src/backend/storage/ipc/dsm.c modified +3 −1
src/include/storage/dsm.h modified +3 −0