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

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
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: 2025-11-25 00:17:19
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Hi,

On 2025-11-24 16:04:41 -0500, Melanie Plageman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks for chiming in, done.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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