Re: Autogenerate some wait events code and documentation

Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>

From: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-03-18T17:57:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Hi,

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 08:49:34AM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 09:04:44AM +0000, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> > --- a/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event_names.txt
> > +++ b/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event_names.txt
> > @@ -24,7 +24,12 @@
> >  #      SGML tables of wait events for inclusion in the documentation.
> >  #
> >  # When adding a new wait event, make sure it is placed in the appropriate
> > -# ClassName section.
> > +# ClassName section. If the wait event is backpatched to a version < 17 then
> > +# put it under a "Backpatch" delimiter at the end of the related ClassName
> > +# section.
> 
> Back-patch from v17 to pre-v17 won't use this, because v16 has hand-maintained
> enums.  It's back-patch v18->v17 or v22->v17 where this will come up.

Thanks for looking at it!
Oh right, the comment is wrong, re-worded in v2 attached.

Regards,

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Bertrand Drouvot
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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Commits

  1. Add "ABI_compatibility" regions to wait_event_names.txt

  2. Remove column for wait event names in wait_event_names.txt

  3. Use more consistent names for wait event objects and types

  4. Add information about line contents on parsing failure of wait_event_names.txt

  5. Remove double quotes from the second column of wait_event_names.txt

  6. Generate automatically code and documentation related to wait events

  7. Refactor some code related to wait events "BufferPin" and "Extension"

  8. doc: Fix ordering of entries in wait event table for I/O type