RE: Re: Buffer access rules, and a probable bug - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mikheev, Vadim
Subject RE: Re: Buffer access rules, and a probable bug
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Msg-id 3705826352029646A3E91C53F7189E320166A9@sectorbase2.sectorbase.com
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In response to Buffer access rules, and a probable bug  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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RE: Re: Buffer access rules, and a probable bug
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> On further thought, btbuild is not that badly broken at the moment,
> because CREATE INDEX acquires ShareLock on the relation, so
> there can be no concurrent writers at the page level. Still, it
> seems like it'd be a good idea to do "LockBuffer(buffer,
BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE)"
> here, and probably also to invoke HeapTupleSatisfiesNow() via the
> HeapTupleSatisfies() macro so that infomask update is checked for.
> Vadim, what do you think?

Looks like there is no drawback in locking buffer so let's lock it.

Vadim


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