Re: trivial refactoring of WaitOnLock

off-by-one is true, but I am not sure if the revised code is faster.
sprintf() need the extra job to parse the format. In win32, I am sure it is
much slower.

"Neil Conway" <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> ???? news:422E3EAC(dot)9000403(at)samurai(dot)com(dot)(dot)(dot)
> This patch refactors some code in WaitOnLock slightly. The old code was
> slow, and I believe it was off-by-one (it allocates one byte of memory
> more than needed).
>
> Barring any objections I'll apply this to HEAD later today.
>
> -Neil
>

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> Index: src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/pgsql/src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.147
> diff -c -r1.147 lock.c
> *** src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c 1 Mar 2005 21:14:59 -0000 1.147
> --- src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c 8 Mar 2005 05:42:06 -0000
> ***************
> *** 1076,1081 ****
> --- 1076,1082 ----
> LockMethod lockMethodTable = LockMethods[lockmethodid];
> char *new_status,
> *old_status;
> + size_t len;
>
> Assert(lockmethodid < NumLockMethods);
>
> ***************
> *** 1083,1091 ****
> locallock->lock, locallock->tag.mode);
>
> old_status = pstrdup(get_ps_display());
> ! new_status = (char *) palloc(strlen(old_status) + 10);
> ! strcpy(new_status, old_status);
> ! strcat(new_status, " waiting");
> set_ps_display(new_status);
>
> awaitedLock = locallock;
> --- 1084,1092 ----
> locallock->lock, locallock->tag.mode);
>
> old_status = pstrdup(get_ps_display());
> ! len = strlen(old_status);
> ! new_status = (char *) palloc(len + 8 + 1);
> ! sprintf(new_status, "%s waiting", old_status);
> set_ps_display(new_status);
>
> awaitedLock = locallock;
>

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