Re: Nasty bug in heap_page_prune

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Nasty bug in heap_page_prune
Date: 2008-03-07 13:07:20
Message-ID: 20080307130720.GB11041@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane escribió:

> Not sure about a clean solution to this. I don't really want to
> bastardize inval.c by making it deal with nontransactional semantics,
> but there may be no other way.

FWIW IIRC we hit precisely this problem while trying to do the
pg_class_nt stuff awhile ago, so if it's overcome as a result of this
HOT bug perhaps we can push forward with the other stuff too.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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