Re: vac_truncate_clog()'s bogus check leads to bogusness

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: vac_truncate_clog()'s bogus check leads to bogusness
Date: 2023-06-23 05:29:12
Message-ID: 20230623052912.GA2388519@rfd.leadboat.com
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 09:45:18AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2023-06-21 21:50:39 -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 03:12:08PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > When vac_truncate_clog() returns early
> > ...
> > > we haven't released the lwlock that we acquired earlier
> >
> > > Until there's some cause for the session to call LWLockReleaseAll(), the lock
> > > is held. Until then neither the process holding the lock, nor any other
> > > process, can finish vacuuming. We don't even have an assert against a
> > > self-deadlock with an already held lock, oddly enough.
> >
> > I agree with this finding. Would you like to add the lwlock releases, or
> > would you like me to?
>
> Happy with either. I do have code and testcase, so I guess it would make
> sense for me to do it?

Sounds good. Thanks.

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