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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c b/src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c
index 367c0e6cf81..6e7efe6d6c9 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c,v 1.190 2007/06/19 22:01:15 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c,v 1.191 2007/07/16 21:09:50 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -1168,9 +1168,11 @@ CheckDeadLock(void)
}
/*
- * Release locks acquired at head of routine. Order is not critical, so
- * do it back-to-front to avoid waking another CheckDeadLock instance
- * before it can get all the locks.
+ * And release locks. We do this in reverse order for two reasons:
+ * (1) Anyone else who needs more than one of the locks will be trying
+ * to lock them in increasing order; we don't want to release the other
+ * process until it can get all the locks it needs.
+ * (2) This avoids O(N^2) behavior inside LWLockRelease.
*/
check_done:
for (i = NUM_LOCK_PARTITIONS; --i >= 0;)