Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 05:17:40PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ReindexIndex() faces this same problem and solves it with some
>> very complex code that manages to get the table's lock first.
> I noticed that amcheck's bt_index_check_internal() handles this problem,
> ...
> stats_lock_check_privileges() does something similar, but it's not as
> cautious about the "heapid != IndexGetRelation(indrelid, false)" race
> condition.
Egad, we've already got three inconsistent implementations of this
functionality? I think the first step must be to unify them into
a common implementation, if at all possible.
regards, tom lane
