Re: On conflict update & hint bits

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Konstantin Knizhnik <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: On conflict update & hint bits
Date: 2016-10-23 21:49:29
Message-ID: CAM3SWZS=aJcNe=mQsag-xwHa-gruXzmcCeQucwFD14A8JgUhOw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> What's bothering me is (a) it's less than 24 hours to release wrap and
> (b) this patch changes SSI-relevant behavior and hasn't been approved
> by Kevin. I'm not familiar enough with that logic to commit a change
> in it on my own authority, especially with so little time for problems
> to be uncovered.

I should point out that I knew that the next set of point releases had
been moved forward much later than you did. I had to work on this fix
during the week, which was pretty far from ideal for me for my own
reasons.

> I'm okay with adding an explicit buffer lock/unlock pair, and in fact
> plan to go have a look at that in a bit. I'm not okay with doing a
> refactoring that might change the behavior in more ways than that
> under these circumstances.

Fair enough. As long as we do that much, I'm comfortable.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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