Re: Proposal: Add a callback data parameter to GetNamedDSMSegment

Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>

From: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>

To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

Cc: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-12-03T20:27:29Z

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Allow passing a pointer to GetNamedDSMSegment()'s init callback.
- 48d4a1423d2e 19 (unreleased) landed
Move dynamically-allocated LWLock tranche names to shared memory.
- 38b602b0289f 19 (unreleased) cited

> My gut feeling is that this is an obscure enough use-case that this
> workaround is probably sufficient, but I am interested to hear more...

There are probably other good reasons to allow a generic argument
to the init callback. Besides the lwlock name, I can see someone
wanting to pass some other initialization info that may vary
depending on extension GUCs, etc.

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Sami