Re: dynamic shared memory and locks

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Shouldn't we introduce a typedef LWLock* LWLockid; or something to avoid
>> breaking external code using lwlocks?
>
> +1, in fact there's probably no reason to touch most *internal* code using
> that type name either.

I thought about this but figured it was too much of a misnomer to
refer to a pointer as an ID.  But, if we're sure we want to go that
route, I can go revise the patch along those lines.

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