Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Gurjeet Singh escribi�:
>> I just looked at the patch... Isn't PG_TRY() an expensive call to make in
>> the lock.c code? I was thinking of registering a Xact callback using
>> RegisterXactCallback() and performing 'waiting' reset in that callback if
>> the Xact event is XACT_EVENT_ABORT.
> PG_TRY is not expensive as all that -- it's just a sigsetjmp() call and
> another stack frame.
Also, since we're about to block here, shaving microseconds is not all
that important.
The reason I did it that way was to avoid having to export the saved
ps-display string out to someplace LockWaitCancel could find it.
regards, tom lane