From: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Strange failure in LWLock on skink in REL9_5_STABLE |
Date: | 2018-11-06 04:29:36 |
Message-ID: | CAEepm=08gkzswenXhoxZB1VhA4k-XW_Z=Wo-BsXTgDPCTe5G8Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:18 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 2:28 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> > Hm. Don't we need to worry about anybody potentially using these APIs
> > in a custom module on platforms where it was actually working? I
> > imagine that their reaction is not going be nice if any code breaks
> > suddenly after a minor release. No issues with removing the interface
> > on HEAD of course.
>
> +1.
>
> The fact that the code exists there at all is my fault. I thought it
> might be useful someday, but now I don't think so any more. Thomas's
> solution -- in the DSA machinery -- of allocating entirely new
> segments seems like a better approach for now, and in the long run, I
> think we should convert the whole backend to use threads,
> nonwithstanding the TODO entry that says otherwise. Even if we never
> do that, extending a segment in place is pretty difficult to make
> practical, since it may involve remapping the segment, which
> invalidates cached pointers to anything in the segment. And then
> there are the portability problems on top of that. So I'm not very
> optimistic about this any more.
>
> But ripping it out in the back branches seems unnecessary. I'd just
> leave the bugs unfixed there. Most likely nobody is using that stuff,
> but if they are, let's not break it.
Thanks. Pushed to master only.
--
Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com
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