Re: performance issue in remove_from_unowned_list()

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Ideriha, Takeshi" <ideriha(dot)takeshi(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: performance issue in remove_from_unowned_list()
Date: 2019-03-06 19:06:38
Message-ID: ff315f61-dc05-f5da-8371-c30c0d8bf9e4@2ndquadrant.com
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On 3/6/19 7:52 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2019-Feb-08, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering if we should just get rid of all such optimizations, and
>> make the unowned list doubly-linked (WIP patch attached, needs fixing
>> the comments etc.).
>
> +1 for that approach.
>
> Did you consider using a dlist?
>

I'm not sure. I might have considered it, but decided to go with a
simpler / less invasive fix demonstrating the effect. And maybe make it
more acceptable for backpatch, if we want that. Which we probably don't,
so I agree dlist might be a better choice.

cheers

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