Hello, thank you for looking this. At Fri, 07 Apr 2017 20:38:35 -0400, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]> > Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes: > > Interesting. I wonder if it's possible that a relcache invalidation > > would cause these values to get lost for some reason, because that would > > be dangerous. > > > I suppose the rationale is that this shouldn't happen because any > > operation that does things this way must hold an exclusive lock on the > > relation. But that doesn't guarantee that the relcache entry is > > completely stable, > > It ABSOLUTELY is not safe. Relcache flushes can happen regardless of > how strong a lock you hold. > > regards, tom lane
Ugh. Yes, relcache invalidation happens anytime and it resets the added values. pg_stat_info deceived me that it can store transient values. But I came up with another thought. The reason I proposed it was I thought that hash_search for every buffer is not good. Instead, like pg_stat_info, we can link the pending-sync hash entry to Relation. This greately reduces the frequency of hash-searching. I'll post new patch in this way soon. regards, -- Kyotaro Horiguchi NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
