Re: Fwd: How does the partitioned lock manager works?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: rancpine cui <rancpine(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fwd: How does the partitioned lock manager works?
Date: 2007-04-27 13:55:24
Message-ID: 20070427135524.GF4645@alvh.no-ip.org
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rancpine cui escribió:

> I've seen from the README that
> "The shared-memory hash tables for LOCKs and PROCLOCKs are organized
> so that different partitions use different hash chains, and thus there
> is no conflict in working with objects in different partitions."
> What does "hash chains" mean?

Each "hash chain" is a different, separate, independent hash struct.

> As the dynahash.c's "partitioned table" mechanism suggests, a lock's
> bucket number can be calculated from its hash value, then it will be
> inserted into that bucket,so how does partition number works?

Which hash is used depends on the partition number.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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