Re: Introduce WAIT_EVENT_EXTENSION and WAIT_EVENT_BUFFER_PIN

Hi,

On 6/9/23 1:15 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 10:57:55AM +0900, Masahiro Ikeda wrote:
>> (Excuse me for cutting in, and this is not directly related to the thread.)
>> +1. I'm interested in the feature.
>>
>> This is just a example and it probable be useful for other users. IMO, at
>> least, it's better to improve the specification that "Extension"
>> wait event type has only the "Extension" wait event.
>
> I hope that nobody would counter-argue you here. In my opinion, we
> should just introduce an API that allows extensions to retrieve wait
> event numbers that are allocated by the backend under
> PG_WAIT_EXTENSION, in a fashion similar to GetNamedLWLockTranche().
> Say something like:
> int GetExtensionWaitEvent(const char *wait_event_name);

+1, that's something I've in mind to work on once/if this patch is/get
committed.

Regards,

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