On 2016-08-19 09:46:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alexander Korotkov <a.korot...@postgrespro.ru> writes: > > originally this idea was proposed by Andres Freund while experimenting with > > lockfree Pin/UnpinBuffer [1]. > > The patch is attached as well as results of pgbench -S on 72-cores > > machine. As before it shows huge benefit in this case. > > That's one mighty ugly patch.
My version of it was only intended to nail down some variability on the pgpro machine, it wasn't intended for submission. > Can't you do it without needing to introduce the additional layer of > struct nesting? If we required support for anonymous unions, such things would be a lot easier to do. That aside, the only alternative seems tob e hard-coding padding space - which probably isn't all that un-fragile either. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
