Re: Strange Windows problem, lock_timeout test request

Tom Lane wrote:

> Another way that we perhaps should consider is to follow the example of
> XLogInsert and use internally-threaded lists that are typically stored
> in local arrays in the callers.  I've never thought that way was
> especially beautiful, but it does have the advantage of being an idiom
> that's already in use in other low-level code.

FWIW you could use an slist from ilist.c.  It means each node would need
a "next" pointer, but there's no separately allocated list cell.

There are many places that could use slist/dlist.  For instance while
reading the SET PERSISTENT patch I noticed it has head and tail pointers
being passed all over the place, which looks rather ugly.

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