Re: Option to not use ringbuffer in VACUUM, using it in failsafe mode

On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 02:57, Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] add vacuum option to specify ring_size and guc
> >
> > >  #define INT_ACCESS_ONCE(var) ((int)(*((volatile int *)&(var))))
> > > +#define bufsize_limit_to_nbuffers(bufsize) (bufsize * 1024 / BLCKSZ)
> >
> > Macros are normally be capitalized
>
> Yes, there doesn't seem to be a great amount of consistency around
> this... See pgstat.c read_chunk_s and bufmgr.c BufHdrGetBlock and
> friends. Though there are probably more capitalized than not. Since it
> does a bit of math and returns a value, I wanted to convey that it was
> more like a function. Also, since the name was long, I thought all-caps
> would be hard to read. However, if you or others feel strongly, I am
> attached neither to the capitalization nor to the name at all (what do
> you think of the name?).

A static inline function seems like a less surprising and more type
safe solution for this.

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Ants Aasma
Senior Database Engineer
www.cybertec-postgresql.com