From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Yugo Nagata <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Autovacuum launcher occurs error when cancelled by SIGINT |
Date: | 2017-06-22 22:02:59 |
Message-ID: | 20170622220259.krj6uxcxzspd4of6@alvherre.pgsql |
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Thomas Munro wrote:
> I thought about this when designing the DSA API. I couldn't think of
> any good reason to provide an 'am-I-already-attached?' function
> equivalent to dsm_find_mapping. It seemed to me that the client code
> shouldn't ever be in any doubt about whether it's attached, and that
> wilfully or absent-mindedly throwing away dsa_area pointers and having
> to ask for them again doesn't seem like a very good design. I suspect
> the same applies to dsm_find_mapping, and I don't see any callers in
> the source tree or indeed anywhere on the internet (based on a quick
> Google search). But I could be missing something.
I think such an API call is potentially useful for things like assertion
checks, if nothing else.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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