Improve ilist.h's support for deletion of slist elements during iteration.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Improve ilist.h's support for deletion of slist elements during iteration. Previously one had to use slist_delete(), implying an additional scan of the list, making this infrastructure considerably less efficient than traditional Lists when deletion of element(s) in a long list is needed. Modify the slist_foreach_modify() macro to support deleting the current element in O(1) time, by keeping a "prev" pointer in addition to "cur" and "next". Although this makes iteration with this macro a bit slower, no real harm is done, since in any scenario where you're not going to delete the current list element you might as well just use slist_foreach instead. Improve the comments about when to use each macro. Back-patch to 9.3 so that we'll have consistent semantics in all branches that provide ilist.h. Note this is an ABI break for callers of slist_foreach_modify(). Andres Freund and Tom Lane
Files
| Path | Change | +/− |
|---|---|---|
| src/backend/lib/ilist.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/backend/postmaster/bgworker.c | modified | +10 −5 |
| src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c | modified | +7 −0 |
| src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c | modified | +2 −2 |
| src/include/lib/ilist.h | modified | +51 −11 |
| src/include/postmaster/bgworker_internals.h | modified | +1 −1 |