On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Cédric Villemain
<cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert, I am unsure with the hint_bit_write_allowance counter. It
> looks a bit fragile because
> nothing prevent hint_bit_write_allowance counter to increase a lot,
> so that is not 100 but X*100 next hint bit will be written. Isn't it ?
hint_bit_write_allowance can never be more than 100. The only things
we ever do are set it to exactly 100, and decrease it by 1 if it's
positive.
> Also, won't buffer_allocation_count hit INT limit ?
Sure, if the backend sticks around long enough, but it's no big deal
if it overflows.
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