"Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A few thoughts on LWLock data structures...

> In lwlock.c we hold a list of lwlocks held:
> held_lwlocks[MAX_SIMUL_LWLOCKS]
> where
> #define MAX_SIMUL_LWLOCKS     100

> The code for LWLockRelease assumes that the last acquired lock will
> always be the first one to be released, and uses an O(N) loop to search
> for the lock to release.

> Setting MAX_SIMUL_LWLOCKS to this fairly high number doesn't seem to
> match the optimistic use of the O(N) algorithm.

So?  The search only examines the actually-in-use array entries.

                        regards, tom lane

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