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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
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 15:32:53
Message-ID: 28491.1560526373@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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?

regards, tom lane

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