Re: Improve LWLock tranche name visibility across backends

Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>

From: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>

To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

Cc: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-08-30T16:25:48Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

>> I've also attached a rebased patch that addresses all the latest feedback.
>> A reworked verison of the test patch is also included, but that's mostly
>> intended for CI purposes and is still not intended for commit (yet).

> And here's an attempt at fixing the alignment problems revealed by cfbot.

This LGTM. Once we get this committed, will follow-up on [0]

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAA5RZ0v1_15QPg5Sqd2Qz5rh_qcsyCeHHmRDY89xVHcy2yt5BQ%40mail.gmail.com

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Sami

Commits

test_dsa: Avoid leaking LWLock tranches.
- c5c74282f2ea 19 (unreleased) landed
Teach DSM registry to ERROR if attaching to an uninitialized entry.
- b26d76f64327 18.2 landed
- ac2800ddc185 17.8 landed
- 1165a933aab1 19 (unreleased) landed
Add a test harness for the LWLock tranche code.
- 16607718c010 19 (unreleased) landed
Revert recent change to RequestNamedLWLockTranche().
- d814d7fc3d52 19 (unreleased) landed
Move dynamically-allocated LWLock tranche names to shared memory.
- 38b602b0289f 19 (unreleased) landed
Prepare DSM registry for upcoming changes to LWLock tranche names.
- 5487058b56e0 19 (unreleased) landed
Add GetNamedDSA() and GetNamedDSHash().
- fe07100e82b0 19 (unreleased) cited