From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave and race conditions |
Date: | 2007-06-28 19:29:48 |
Message-ID: | 20070628192948.GA22200@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane escribió:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > AFAICS, we can just simply remove the assertion. But is there any
> > codepaths that assume that after calling HeapTupleSatisfiesSnapshot, all
> > appropriate hint bits are set?
>
> There had better not be, since we are going to postpone setting hint
> bits for recently-committed transactions as part of the async-commit
> patch.
>
> A quick grep suggests that VACUUM FULL might be at risk here.
That particular case seems easily fixed since VACUUM FULL must hold an
exclusive lock; and we can forcibly set sync commit for VACUUM FULL.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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