Re: SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave and race conditions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave and race conditions
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Msg-id 20070628192948.GA22200@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave and race conditions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane escribió:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > AFAICS, we can just simply remove the assertion. But is there any 
> > codepaths that assume that after calling HeapTupleSatisfiesSnapshot, all 
> > appropriate hint bits are set?
> 
> There had better not be, since we are going to postpone setting hint
> bits for recently-committed transactions as part of the async-commit
> patch.
> 
> A quick grep suggests that VACUUM FULL might be at risk here.

That particular case seems easily fixed since VACUUM FULL must hold an
exclusive lock; and we can forcibly set sync commit for VACUUM FULL.

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