On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 6:10 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > I was wondering about that too - but decided against it because it would only > show a single wait event. And wouldn't really describe spinlocks as a whole, > just the "extreme" delays. If we wanted to report the spin waits more > granular, we'd presumably have to fit the wait events into the lwlock, buffers > and some new category where we name individual spinlocks. > > But I guess a single spinlock wait event type with an ExponentialBackoff wait > event or such wouldn't be too bad.
Oh, hmm. I guess it is actually bracketing a timed wait, now that I look closer at what you did. So perhaps your first idea was best after all. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
