Re: <IDLE> and waiting

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, PGSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: <IDLE> and waiting
Date: 2008-02-02 23:39:39
Message-ID: 25828.1201995579@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Gurjeet Singh escribi:
>> I just looked at the patch... Isn't PG_TRY() an expensive call to make in
>> the lock.c code? I was thinking of registering a Xact callback using
>> RegisterXactCallback() and performing 'waiting' reset in that callback if
>> the Xact event is XACT_EVENT_ABORT.

> PG_TRY is not expensive as all that -- it's just a sigsetjmp() call and
> another stack frame.

Also, since we're about to block here, shaving microseconds is not all
that important.

The reason I did it that way was to avoid having to export the saved
ps-display string out to someplace LockWaitCancel could find it.

regards, tom lane

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