Re: make MaxBackends available in _PG_init

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, "wangsh(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <wangsh(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: make MaxBackends available in _PG_init
Date: 2022-02-09 02:38:17
Message-ID: YgMpGZhPOjNfS7er@paquier.xyz
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 04:12:26PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> After some investigation I've determined that it's no longer Friday
> afternoon. I also spent time investigating whether the patch had
> problems that would make me uncomfortable with the idea of committing
> it, and I did not find any. So, I committed it.

@@ -1641,8 +1642,8 @@ SignalBackends(void)
* XXX in principle these pallocs could fail, which would be bad. Maybe
* preallocate the arrays? They're not that large, though.
*/
- pids = (int32 *) palloc(MaxBackends * sizeof(int32));
- ids = (BackendId *) palloc(MaxBackends * sizeof(BackendId));
+ pids = (int32 *) palloc(GetMaxBackends() * sizeof(int32));
+ ids = (BackendId *) palloc(GetMaxBackends() * sizeof(BackendId));

You could have optimized this one, while on it, as well as the ones in
pgstat_beinit() and pg_safe_snapshot_blocking_pids(). It is not hot,
but you did that for all the other callers of GetMaxBackends(). Just
saying..
--
Michael

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