Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> creatingOffsetZero will be a bool that gets set before releasing
> MultiXactGenLock if offset 0 is being returned, and then we clear it
> after updating the slru data structures if we had starting offset 0.
If you're going to have a special flag indicating this couldn't you just have
a special flag indicating that the offset isn't ready yet? Loop until that
flag is cleared instead of looking for offset != 0 at all.
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greg