On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 07:13:03PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My tests seem happy, so I will plan on committing these patches tomorrow.
>> The only difference in v4 is that pg_get_dsm_registry_allocations() will no
>> longer show partially-initialized entries. I thought that was the best
>> option in this case because such entries shouldn't have any allocated
>> memory, and retrying GetNamed*() would set *found to false.
>
> Without actually opening the new patch files, that seems OK to me. I
> think the important thing about such a view is that it shouldn't make
> any state changes; it should just show how things are. In my ideal
> world, it would probably show partially-initialized entires in some
> distinguishable way, like with a null size. But leaving them out is
> also defensible. The thing that I think really matters for failure
> cases is the ability to retry whatever's gone wrong, either to get it
> fixed or to see the error, and the other changes already accomplish
> that goal, so I'm happy.
Committed, thanks for reviewing.
--
nathan
