On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 2:04 AM Antonin Houska <a...@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. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
