Re: _bt_parent_deletion_safe() isn't safe - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: _bt_parent_deletion_safe() isn't safe
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Msg-id 1278209602-sup-1299@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: _bt_parent_deletion_safe() isn't safe  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie jul 02 22:02:59 -0400 2010:

> Possibly.  I was planning to go back and study that code a bit more ---
> I have a feeling that there might be some kind of rare concurrency bug
> involved in btree page deletion.  But I've been up to my rear in
> other alligators for the past several weeks.

Judging from the evidence I've seen, I'm fairly sure that there *is* a
concurrency bug somewhere in that code.


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