Re: How to expose session vs txn lock info in pg_locks view?

Hi,

On 2021-01-19 14:16:07 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> AFAICS it'd be necessary to expand PROCLOG to expose this in shmem.
> Probably by adding a small bitfield where bit 0 is set if there's a txn
> level lock and bit 1 is set if there's a session level lock. But I'm not
> convinced that expanding PROCLOCK is justifiable for this. sizeof(PROCLOCK)
> is 64 on a typical x64 machine. Adding anything to it increases it to 72
> bytes.

Indeed - I really don't want to increase the size, it's already a
problem.

> It's frustrating to be unable to tell the difference between session-level
> and txn-level locks in diagnostic output.

It'd be useful, I agree.

> And the deadlock detector has no way to tell the difference when
> selecting a victim for a deadlock abort - it'd probably make sense to
> prefer to send a deadlock abort for txn-only lockers.

I'm doubtful this is worth going for.

> But I'm not sure I see a sensible way to add the info - PROCLOCK is
> already free of any padding, and I wouldn't want to use hacks like
> pointer-tagging.

I think there's an easy way to squeeze out space: make groupLeader be an
integer index into allProcs instead. That requires only 4 bytes...

Alternatively, I think it'd be reasonably easy to add the scope as a bit
in LOCKMASK - there's plenty space.

Greetings,

Andres Freund