Fwd: [HACKERS] TODO: fix priority of ordering of read and write light-weight locks

2009-08-14 Thread Jeff Janes
Sorry, I screwed up. The below was supposed to go to the list, not Tom personally. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff Janes Date: Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] TODO: fix priority of ordering of read and write light-weight locks To: Tom Lane On Tue, Aug

Re: [HACKERS] TODO: fix priority of ordering of read and write light-weight locks

2009-08-11 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff Janes writes: > The wiki todo has the topic "Fix priority ordering of read and write > light-weight locks" and > references http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00893.php > (lwlocks and starvation) > Having read the referenced discussion, I'm trying to figure out what > re

[HACKERS] TODO: fix priority of ordering of read and write light-weight locks

2009-08-11 Thread Jeff Janes
The wiki todo has the topic "Fix priority ordering of read and write light-weight locks" and references http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00893.php (lwlocks and starvation) Having read the referenced discussion, I'm trying to figure out what remains to be done. Tom proposed