Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> As a proposed fix, instead of acquiring the CheckpointStartLock in 
> RecordTransactionCommit, we set a flag in MyProc saying "commit in 
> progress". Checkpoint will scan through the procarray and make note of 
> any commit in progress transactions, after computing the new redo record 
> ptr, and wait for all of them to finish before flushing clog.

What sort of "wait for finish" mechanism do you have in mind?  While
I've always thought CheckpointStartLock is a pretty ugly solution,
I'm not sure the above is better.

			regards, tom lane

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• CheckpointStartLock starvation at 2007-04-02 19:00:03 from Heikki Linnakangas

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