Hi,
> The fix is similar to the earlier commit by Tom. I tested this fix
> > against 8.3.13. We lock the parent catalog now before calling
> > index_open. Patch against git HEAD attached with this mail. I guess we
> > will backpatch this? Tom's last commit was backpatched till 8.2 I
> > think.
>
> Is it really worth slowing down the startup sequence for every
> connection to avoid deadlocking against a very rare maintenance
> operation?
>
>
Not really a performance issue AFAICS. If the relcache init file exists,
then the phase2 of the catalog cache which eventually calls the above code
path is avoided.
Regards,
Nikhils