Re: Assertion failure on hot standby

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Assertion failure on hot standby
Date: 2010-11-26 08:44:22
Message-ID: 1290761062.14888.2736.camel@ebony
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On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 11:19 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > As to solutions, it cannot be acceptable to ignore some locks just
> > because an xid has not been assigned.
>
> Even if GetRunningTransactionLocks ignores such a lock, it's eventually
> WAL-logged by LogAccessExclusiveLock, isn't it?

If it were true always, I would much prefer your solution.

Assuming that would then cause a race condition between the logging of
the RunningXactsData and the lock, which wouldn't move us forwards.

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