Re: Autovacuum breakage from a734fd5d1

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum breakage from a734fd5d1
Date: 2016-11-28 01:02:14
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYgmTcKY6NSDCq=z2Qg6ds1oVTJQNMfFu8fY6b+cajoLw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> So the problem seems to be confirmed to exist, but be of low probability
> and low consequences, in back branches. I think we only need to fix it in
> HEAD. The lock acquisition and status recheck that I proposed before
> should be sufficient.

Thanks for digging into this. I failed to notice while reviewing that
the way we were printing the message had changed a bit in the new
code, and I just totally overlooked the existing locking hazards.
Oops.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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