Re: Atomics in localbuf.c

Hi,

On 2020-03-06 11:26:41 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 2:04 AM Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> wrote:
> > ok. What I missed is that BufferDesc.state is declared as pg_atomic_uint32
> > rather than plain int, so the pg_atomic_...() functions should be used
> > regardless the buffer is shared or local. Sorry for the noise.
>
> Right. I thought, though, that your question was why we did it that
> way instead of just declaring them as uint32. I'm not sure it's very
> important, but I think that question hasn't really been answered.

I tried, at least:

> Since local/shared buffers share the buffer header definition, we still have to use proper functions to access
> the atomic variables.

There's only one struct BufferDesc. We could separate them out /
introduce a union or such. But that'd add some complexity / potential
for mistakes too.

Greetings,

Andres Freund