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From: Ranier Vilela <[email protected]>
To: Richard Guo <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Avoid unncessary always true test (src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c)
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 08:06:26 -0300
Message-ID: <CAEudQArD04043ahRO_9mXiYSfhvsac4SSyskUVk5PTm73Ab24A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Em dom., 4 de jun. de 2023 às 23:37, Richard Guo <[email protected]>
escreveu:

>
> On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 8:42 PM Ranier Vilela <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Per Coverity.
>>
>> At function ExtendBufferedRelShared, has a always true test.
>> eb.rel was dereferenced one line above, so in
>> if (eb.rel) is always true.
>>
>> I think it's worth removing the test, because Coverity raises dozens of
>> alerts thinking eb.rel might be NULL.
>> Besides, one less test is one less branch.
>>
>
> This also happens in ExtendBufferedRelTo, and the comment there explains
> that the eb.rel 'could have been closed while waiting for lock'.
>
Well, RelationGetSmgr also dereferences eb.rel.
If eb.rel could be closed while waiting for lock,
anyone who references eb.rel below takes a risk?

static inline SMgrRelation
RelationGetSmgr(Relation rel)
{
if (unlikely(rel->rd_smgr == NULL))
smgrsetowner(&(rel->rd_smgr), smgropen(rel->rd_locator, rel->rd_backend));
return rel->rd_smgr;
}

regards,
Ranier Vilela


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