Re: dsm_unpin_segment

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: dsm_unpin_segment
Date: 2016-08-09 22:38:50
Message-ID: 7e3bee99-6be0-e976-ab2a-f000196785a3@BlueTreble.com
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On 8/9/16 1:01 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> However, I don't see the need for a full-blown request
> counter here; we've had this API for several releases now and to my
> knowledge nobody has complained about the fact that you aren't
> supposed to call dsm_pin_segment() multiple times for the same
> segment.

Could a couple of static variables be used to ensure multiple pin/unpin
and attach/detach calls throw an assert() (or become a no-op if asserts
are disabled)? It would be nice if we could protect users from this.
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