Re: myProcLocks initialization

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-10-31T20:22:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Revised patch attached. I think it would be useful to assert this
>> both at process startup time and at process shutdown, since it would
>> really be much nicer to have the process that didn't clean up fail the
>> assertion, rather than the new one that innocently inherited its slot;
>> so the attached patch takes that approach.

> Something stronger than an assertion at shutdown? Run-time test?

There's currently no evidence to suggest this will ever fire at all,
especially not in non-development builds, so an assert seems enough
to me.

			regards, tom lane