Re: BUG #14150: Attempted to delete invisible tuple

From: Oskari Saarenmaa <os(at)aiven(dot)io>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Tripp <peter(at)chartio(dot)com>, Virendra Negi <virendra(at)idyllic-software(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #14150: Attempted to delete invisible tuple
Date: 2016-07-07 19:43:59
Message-ID: 6e259534-eb94-0319-dace-ee83d9535a86@aiven.io
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07.07.2016, 05:15, Peter Geoghegan kirjoitti:
> Maybe heap_abort_speculative() should be refactored to call another
> function, and keep only the parts that specifically expect a
> HeapTupleHeaderIsSpeculative() tuple. The function that it is made to
> call (that consists of the majority of the current
> heap_abort_speculative() implementation) could also be called by a
> special super deletion variant of toast_delete(). No need to spread
> knowledge about speculative insertion any further this way, AFAICT.
> The UPSERT commit did modify two HeapTupleSatisfies* routines, but
> that didn't include HeapTupleSatisfiesUpdate() (just
> HeapTupleSatisfiesDirty(), and the aforementioned defensive code in
> HeapTupleSatisfiesToast()).
>
> What do you think of this outline, Oskari and Andres?

Something like the attached patch? It still modifies the toast_delete
API, but we could also implement a new speculative-tuple-aware version
of it if that's a concern.

/ Oskari

Attachment Content-Type Size
heap_delete_speculative.patch text/x-patch 4.9 KB

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