Re: FlexLocks

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2011-11-16T20:17:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Fix copyright notices, other minor editing in new range-types code.

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On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
>> We could alternatively change one or the other of them to be a
>> struct with one member, but I think the cure might be worse than
>> the disease.  By my count, we are talking about saving perhaps as
>> many as 34 lines of code changes here, and that's only if
>> complicating the type handling doesn't require any changes to
>> places that are untouched at present, which I suspect it would.
>
> So I stepped through all the changes of this type, and I notice that
> most of them are in areas where we've talked about likely benefits
> of creating new FlexLock variants instead of staying with LWLocks;
> if any of that is done (as seems likely), it further reduces the
> impact from 34 lines.  If we take care of LWLockHeldByMe() as you
> describe, I'll concede the FlexLockId changes.

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