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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: elog during holding a spinlock is safe?
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Msg-id 24088.1284518830@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to elog during holding a spinlock is safe?  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: elog during holding a spinlock is safe?  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
> In HEAD, OwnLatch can elog during holding the spinlock WalSnd->mutex.
> This seems to be unsafe

Even if it were safe, holding a spinlock through non-straight-line code
is a complete violation of the spinlock coding rules re the length of
time you're supposed to hold the lock.  Heikki?
        regards, tom lane

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