Re: Re: PANIC: invalid index offnum: 186 when processing BRIN indexes in VACUUM

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:

> > 2. when summarization is requested on the partial range at the end of a
> > table, we acquire extension lock on the rel, then compute relation size
> > and run summarization with the lock held. This guarantees that we don't
> > miss any pages. This is bad for concurrency though, so it's only done
> > in that specific scenario.
>
> Hm, I wonder how this will play with the active proposals around
> reimplementing relation extension locks. All that work seems to be
> assuming that the extension lock is only held for a short time and
> nothing much beyond physical extension is done while holding it.
> I'm afraid that you may be introducing a risk of e.g. deadlocks
> if you do this.

Ouch ... yeah, that could be a problem.

Another idea I had was to just insert the placeholder tuple while
holding the extension lock, then release the lock while the
summarization is done. It would be a bit of a break of the current
separation of concerns, but I'm not convinced that the current setup is
perfect, so maybe that's okay.

> If VACUUM and brin_summarize_new_values both ignore the partial
> range, then what else would request this? Can't we just decree
> that we don't summarize the partial range, period?

brin_summarize_range() can do it.

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