Re: Resource Owner reassign Locks

On 18.06.2012 13:59, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 10.06.2012 23:39, Jeff Janes wrote:
> I found the interface between resowner.c and lock.c a bit confusing.
> resowner.c would sometimes call LockReassignCurrentOwner() to reassign
> all the locks, and sometimes it would call LockReassignCurrentOwner() on
> each individual lock, with the net effect that's the same as calling
> LockReleaseCurrentOwner(). And it doesn't seem right for
> ResourceOwnerRemember/ForgetLock to have to accept a NULL owner.
>
> I rearranged that so that there's just a single
> LockReassignCurrentOwner() function, like before this patch. But it
> takes as an optional argument a list of locks held by the current
> resource owner. If the caller knows it, it can pass them to make the
> call faster, but if it doesn't it can just pass NULL and the function
> will traverse the hash table the old-fashioned way. I think that's a
> better API.
>
> Please take a look to see if I broke something.

I hear no complaints, so committed. Thanks!

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