Re: buildfarm: could not read block 3 in file "base/16384/2662": read only 0 of 8192 bytes

Hi,

On 2018-08-31 19:53:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> My thought is to do (and back-patch) my change, and then work on yours
> as a performance improvement for HEAD only.

That does make sense.

> I don't believe that yours would make mine redundant, either --- they
> are good complementary changes to make real sure we have no remaining
> bugs of this ilk. (In particular, no matter how much de-duplication
> we do, we'll still have scenarios with recursive cache flushes; so I'm
> not quite convinced that your solution provides a 100% fix by itself.)

Yea this is a fair concern.

One concern I have with your approach is that it isn't particularly
bullet-proof for cases where the rebuild is triggered by something that
doesn't hold a conflicting lock. If there's an independent cause to
reload - something that very commonly happens - we might not necessarily
re-trigger the recursive reloads. That *should* be safe due such
changes hopefully being "harmless", but it's a bit disconcerting
nonetheless.

Greetings,

Andres Freund