Re: BUG #4688: Bug in cache.

From: Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Oleg <serovOv(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #4688: Bug in cache.
Date: 2009-03-03 15:50:21
Message-ID: 1d4e0c10903030750t271b0402gce888b08704f1fae@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> I believe the command has been like that for a long time, and this is
>> the first time someone managed to shoot one's foot.
>
> True.  Maybe it's not worth the trouble.

IMHO, the consequences are far from being negligible and can put a
cluster down for quite a long time if the database is large
(considering the method suggested by Heikki to fix the problem). So if
we can avoid this sort of problem in a few cases without too much
work, it seems like something we should fix.

--
Guillaume

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