Re: Xlogprefetcher: Use atomic add for increment counter

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-11-07T14:41:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2025-11-07 11:28:06 -0300, Ranier Vilela wrote:
> Use pg_atomic_fetch_add_u64 to replace pg_atomic_read_u64 and
> pg_atomic_write_u64 calls.
> 
> This simplifies the logic and this increases the likelihood that the
> operation will be successful.

How does it do so? As the assertions indicate, this can only be run from a
single process.

Greetings,

Andres Freund