Improve ilist.h's support for deletion of slist elements during iteration.
Previously one had to use slist_delete(), implying an additional scan of
the list, making this infrastructure considerably less efficient than
traditional Lists when deletion of element(s) in a long list is needed.
Modify the slist_foreach_modify() macro to support deleting the current
element in O(1) time, by keeping a "prev" pointer in addition to "cur"
and "next". Although this makes iteration with this macro a bit slower,
no real harm is done, since in any scenario where you're not going to
delete the current list element you might as well just use slist_foreach
instead. Improve the comments about when to use each macro.
Back-patch to 9.3 so that we'll have consistent semantics in all branches
that provide ilist.h. Note this is an ABI break for callers of
slist_foreach_modify().
Andres Freund and Tom Lane
Branch
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REL9_3_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cf707aa70da6729a00593c49d5eb8a35ab27dd11
Modified Files
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src/backend/lib/ilist.c | 2 +-
src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c | 7 +++++
src/include/lib/ilist.h | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
3 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)