Re: Dynamic shared memory areas

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Thomas Munro
>> <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>> Please find attached dsa-v8.patch, and also a small test module for
>>> running random allocate/free exercises and dumping the internal
>>> allocator state.
>>
>> OK, I've committed the main patch.
>
> ...but the buildfarm isn't very happy about it.
>
> tern complains:
>
> In file included from dsa.c:58:0:
> ../../../../src/include/utils/dsa.h:59:1: error: unknown type name
> 'pg_atomic_uint64'
>  typedef pg_atomic_uint64 dsa_pointer_atomic;
>
> ...but that code is only compiled if #if DSA_POINTER_SIZEOF == 4 fails
> to be true.  And that should always be true unless
> PG_HAVE_ATOMIC_U64_SUPPORT is defined.  So apparently tern claims to
> PG_HAVE_ATOMIC_U64_SUPPORT but doesn't actually define
> pg_atomic_uint64?  That doesn't seem right.

No, that's not the problem.  Just a garden variety thinko in dsa.h.
Will push a fix presently.

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