On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 04:59:41PM -0500, Sami Imseih wrote:
> hmm, can we really avoid a shared lock when reading from shared memory?
> considering access for both reads and writes can be concurrent to shared
> memory. We are also taking an exclusive lock when writing a new tranche.
We probably want to hold a lock while we 1) increment LWLockCounter and
copy a new tranche name to memory and 2) while we copy the current value of
LWLockCounter to our backend-local variable. Otherwise, AFAICT we don't
need one. We could probably use ShmemLock for this.
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nathan