Re: old synchronized scan patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: old synchronized scan patch
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Msg-id 25882.1165286817@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: old synchronized scan patch  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
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Re: old synchronized scan patch
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Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
> Since I am not storing any pointers, and since the information is only
> really a hint, I don't need to do any locking on that page.

If you think that, you need not bother to submit the patch.  (Hint:
as soon as you consider more than one table at a time, it doesn't work,
even ignoring the question of inconsistent reads.)
        regards, tom lane


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