Re: Interruptible sleeps (was Re: CommitFest 2009-07: Yay, Kevin! Thanks, reviewers!)

On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 12:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > ... why throw an ERROR there if it can't happen (or
> > indicates an inconsistent state when it does happen)?
> 
> Are you suggesting that an Assert would be sufficient?
> 

I'm not too picky about whether it's Assert, ERROR, or PANIC (Asserts
aren't available in production systems, which I assume is why elog was
used); but we should be consistent and document that:(a) it shouldn't happen(b) that it's just a sanity check and we're
ignoringthe race
 

However, that also means that the whole concept of OwnLatch/DisownLatch
is entirely redundant, and only there for asserts because it doesn't do
anything else. That seems a little strange to me, as well, so (at
minimum) it should be documented that the functions really have no
effect on execution and are required only to support debugging.

Regards,Jeff Davis