On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 09:00:57AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > I can think of a number of relatively easy ways to address this:
> > 1) Just zap (or issue?) all pending flush requests when getting an
> > smgrinval/smgrclosenode
> > 2) Do 1), but filter for the closed relnode
> > 3) Actually handle the case of the last open segment not being
> > RELSEG_SIZE properly in _mdfd_getseg() - mdnblocks() does so.
> >
> > I'm kind of inclined to do both 3) and 1).
Andres, you own the underlying open item, right? Do you plan to implement
this fix you have outlined? If so, when?
> #3 seems like it's probably about 15 years overdue, so let's do that anyway.
>
> I don't quite understand why #1 fixes the problem - not because I
> doubt you, but just because I haven't studied it much.
