Re: Announcing Veil

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I'd be willing to add the proposed patch in 8.1 (style note:
> >> NUM_USER_DEFINED_LWLOCKS should be set in pg_config_manual.h not
> >> lwlock.h).
> 
> > Shouldn't it be something we can put in postgresql.conf?
> 
> No more than any of the other entries in pg_config_manual.h.
> With only one known request for a user-allocated lock, it's hard to
> justify the overhead of a GUC variable.

True, but are people going to recompile PostgreSQL to use this feature?
Seems they would have to.

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