| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> | 
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: XX000: enum value 117721 not found in cache for enum enumcrash | 
| Date: | 2012-07-01 20:18:48 | 
| Message-ID: | 28297.1341173928@sss.pgh.pa.us | 
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I wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I think the problem is that load_enum_cache_data() uses
>> GetTransactionSnapshot() rather than GetLatestSnapshot().
> That would only make the race condition window smaller (ie, hard
> to reproduce manually like this, but not gone).
No, wait, we made ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE PreventTransactionChain so that
uncommitted enum OIDs could never get into tables or indexes.  So I
think you're right, forcing a new snapshot to be used would fix this.
However, I'm a bit worried by the "if (!FirstSnapshotSet)" restriction
in GetLatestSnapshot.  Are we sure that enum comparisons could never
happen without a snapshot already being set?  What's the point of
throwing an error there anyway, as opposed to letting it redirect to
GetTransactionSnapshot?
regards, tom lane
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