Re: TopoSort() fix - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: TopoSort() fix
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Msg-id 20190730032157.GA652@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: TopoSort() fix  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: TopoSort() fix  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2019-Jul-29, Tom Lane wrote:

> FYI, I just got done inventing a way to reach that code, and I have
> to suspect that it's impossible to do so in production, because under
> ordinary circumstances no parallel worker will take any exclusive lock
> that isn't already held by its leader.

Hmm, okay, so this wasn't a bug that would have bit anyone in practice,
yeah?  That's reassuring.

Thanks,

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