Re: GIN data corruption bug(s) in 9.6devel

From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GIN data corruption bug(s) in 9.6devel
Date: 2016-04-12 16:30:26
Message-ID: 570D22A2.2090102@sigaev.ru
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> This restricts the memory used by ordinary backends when doing the
> cleanup to be work_mem. Shouldn't we let them use
> maintenance_work_mem? Only one backend can be doing this clean up of a
> given index at any given time, so we don't need to worry about many
> concurrent allocations of maintenance_work_mem. This seems very
> similar in spirit to index creation, where a backend is allowed to use
> maintenance_work_mem.
Because it could be a several indexes in one pg instance. And each cleaner could
eat maintenance_work_mem.

>
> Also, do we plan on backpatching this? While there are no known
Yes

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