Re: Buffer locking is special (hints, checksums, AIO writes)

From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Buffer locking is special (hints, checksums, AIO writes)
Date: 2025-11-24 21:04:41
Message-ID: CAAKRu_Z9BzF=mHeiy+tUJ524_c7q0sBabschMX83Shag2XohpA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2025-11-19 21:47:49 -0500, Andres Freund wrote:
> > 0001: A straight-up bugfix in lwlock.c - albeit for a bug that seems currently
> > effectively harmless.
>
> Does anybody have opinions about whether to backpatch this fix? Given that it
> has no real consequences I'm mildly inclined not to, but maybe there are cases
> where the additional wait list lock cycle matters?

Since it is a mistake, I am mildly in favor of backporting to avoid
confusion for future developers. It's pretty weird that LWLockWakeup()
has to be called again to actually unset LW_FLAG_HAS_WAITERS. But
since it's not really harmful, this is a very mild opinion.

- Melanie

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