Re: pgsql: Avoid spurious deadlocks when upgrading a tuple lock

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Etsuro Fujita <etsuro(dot)fujita(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Avoid spurious deadlocks when upgrading a tuple lock
Date: 2019-06-14 15:37:36
Message-ID: 20190614153736.GA21626@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-Jun-14, Tom Lane wrote:

> I wrote:
> >> Hm, I don't get that warning. Does this patch silence it, please?
>
> > Uh, no patch attached? But initializing the variable where it's
> > declared would certainly silence it.
>
> BTW, after looking around a bit I wonder if this complaint isn't
> exposing an actual logic bug. Shouldn't skip_tuple_lock have
> a lifetime similar to first_time?

I think you're right. I should come up with a test case that exercises
that case.

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