Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Avoid extra locks in GetSnapshotData if old_snapshot_threshold <

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Ants Aasma <ants(dot)aasma(at)eesti(dot)ee>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Avoid extra locks in GetSnapshotData if old_snapshot_threshold <
Date: 2016-05-24 21:51:50
Message-ID: CACjxUsM4u2AyGU1Qn7WKR2Oen_foCeNY0aBxjKmSM6rf14YBcA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

>> It appears that concurrent index builds are currently broken
>> from a quick skim?
>
> Either you don't understand this feature very well, or I don't
> understand concurrent index build very well.

And it may be the latter. On closer review I think some adjustment
may be needed in IndexBuildHeapRangeScan(). I'm not sure that
throwing the error is necessary, since there is a flag to say that
the index is unsafe for existing snapshots -- it may be enough to
set that flag.

Sorry for my earlier email.

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Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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