Re: Atomic GetFreeIndexPage()?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chris Cleveland <ccleveland(at)dieselpoint(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Atomic GetFreeIndexPage()?
Date: 2022-05-04 19:27:21
Message-ID: 2460040.1651692441@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Chris Cleveland <ccleveland(at)dieselpoint(dot)com> writes:
> Would it make sense to make GetFreeIndexPage() atomic?

I strongly doubt it. The loss of concurrency would outweigh any
code-simplicity benefits.

regards, tom lane

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