On 2020-May-05, Ranier Vilela wrote:
> And in that specific case, leaving resources blocked, which perhaps, in my
> humble opinion, could be released quickly.
I very much doubt that you can measure any difference at all between
these two codings of the function.
I agree with the principle you mention, of not holding resources for
long if they can be released earlier; but in this case the table_close
call occurs across a ReleaseSysCache() call, which is hardly of
significance. It's not like you have to wait for some other
transaction, or wait for I/O, or anything like that that would make it
measurable.
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