Re: bufmgr: pass through I/O stats context in FlushUnlockedBuffer()

From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Subject: Re: bufmgr: pass through I/O stats context in FlushUnlockedBuffer()
Date: 2026-04-21 21:52:35
Message-ID: CAAKRu_aUfeVKFW34ZvuhY9tBXUKYfn8rs-8cf-aE4YSUFj-xEQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 10:15 PM Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I noticed that FlushUnlockedBuffer() accepts io_object and io_context, but then ignores them and hardcodes IOOBJECT_RELATIONand IOCONTEXT_NORMAL instead:
> ```
> static void
> FlushUnlockedBuffer(BufferDesc *buf, SMgrRelation reln,
> IOObject io_object, IOContext io_context)
> {
> Buffer buffer = BufferDescriptorGetBuffer(buf);
>
> BufferLockAcquire(buffer, buf, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE);
> FlushBuffer(buf, reln, IOOBJECT_RELATION, IOCONTEXT_NORMAL); // <== HERE
> BufferLockUnlock(buffer, buf);
> }
> ```
>
> Unless I am missing something, if a function accepts these parameters, they should generally be used.

Thanks for the patch. Committed in 31b0544b32b

- Melanie

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