Re: Improve LWLock tranche name visibility across backends

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-08-19T21:20:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 04:16:26PM -0500, Sami Imseih wrote:
> If there is agreement on setting limits, may I propose
> 1024 tranches and NAMEDATALEN. Both seem reasonably sufficient.

Let's proceed with that approach for now.  We can worry about the exact
limits once this is closer to commit.

-- 
nathan



Commits

  1. test_dsa: Avoid leaking LWLock tranches.

  2. Teach DSM registry to ERROR if attaching to an uninitialized entry.

  3. Add a test harness for the LWLock tranche code.

  4. Revert recent change to RequestNamedLWLockTranche().

  5. Move dynamically-allocated LWLock tranche names to shared memory.

  6. Prepare DSM registry for upcoming changes to LWLock tranche names.

  7. Add GetNamedDSA() and GetNamedDSHash().