Re: type cache cleanup improvements

From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: type cache cleanup improvements
Date: 2024-03-08 20:27:07
Message-ID: 793b9121-3a42-4581-8164-6cd871eb7713@sigaev.ru
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Yep, exacly. One time from 2^32 we reset whole cache instead of one (or several)
entry with hash value = 0.

On 08.03.2024 18:35, Tom Lane wrote:
> Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com> writes:
>> One thing that I couldn't immediately figure out is why 0 hash value
>> is treated as a magic invalid value in TypeCacheTypCallback():
>
> I've not read this patch, but IIRC in some places we have a convention
> that hash value zero is passed for an sinval reset event (that is,
> "flush all cache entries").
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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