Re: BUG #4688: Bug in cache. - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Guillaume Smet
Subject Re: BUG #4688: Bug in cache.
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Msg-id 1d4e0c10903030750t271b0402gce888b08704f1fae@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: BUG #4688: Bug in cache.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> I believe the command has been like that for a long time, and this is
>> the first time someone managed to shoot one's foot.
>
> True. =A0Maybe it's not worth the trouble.

IMHO, the consequences are far from being negligible and can put a
cluster down for quite a long time if the database is large
(considering the method suggested by Heikki to fix the problem). So if
we can avoid this sort of problem in a few cases without too much
work, it seems like something we should fix.

--=20
Guillaume

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