From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Julien Rouhaud <julien(dot)rouhaud(at)dalibo(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Rename max_parallel_degree? |
Date: | 2016-06-14 16:16:16 |
Message-ID: | 9413.1465920976@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Of course, it would be nice if we could make these counters 64-bit
> integers, but we can't, because we don't rely on 64-bit reads and
> writes to be atomic on all platforms. So instead they'll have to be
> uint32. That means they could wrap (if you really work at it) but
> subtraction will still return the right answer, so it's OK.
OK ...
> If we
> want to allow the number of parallel workers started to be available
> for statistical purposes, we can keep to uint32 values for that
> (parallel_register_count_lo and parallel_register_count_hi, for
> example), and increment the second one whenever the first one rolls
> over to zero.
And that's going to be atomic how exactly?
regards, tom lane
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