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From: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Issue with cancel_before_shmem_exit while searching to remove a particular registered exit callbacks
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 13:39:21 -0400
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On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 1:12 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's a meaningless statement for any one caller.  So it needs to be more
> like "we expect callers to add and remove temporary before_shmem_exit
> callbacks in strict LIFO order".

Sure, that seems fine.

> I wonder whether we ought to change the function to complain if the
> last list entry doesn't match.  We'd have caught this bug sooner
> if it did, and it's not very clear why silently doing nothing is
> a good idea when there's no match.

+1.

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Robert Haas
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