Re: [SP-]GiST IOS visibility bug (was: Why doens't GiST require super-exclusive lock) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2025-Apr-25, Matthias van de Meent wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In the original thread [0] we established that GIST and SP-GiST
> support index-only scans, but don't have sufficient interlocking to
> prevent dead tuples from being revived for their scan by vacuum.

Hello,

This commitfest entry
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/5721/
is stale.  I would have brought it forward because it's tagged as a bug
fix, but the patches look a bit intimidating to consider it a
backpatchable bug fix.  So, what's the status here?

Thanks

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