Re: [PATCHES] Fix mdsync never-ending loop problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Fix mdsync never-ending loop problem
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Msg-id 392.1175841435@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] Fix mdsync never-ending loop problem  (ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>)
Responses Re: [PATCHES] Fix mdsync never-ending loop problem  (ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>)
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ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> writes:
> In my understanding from the discussion, we'd better to take "cycle ID"
> approach instead of "making a copy of pendingOpsTable", because duplicated
> table is hard to debug and requires us to pay attention not to leak memories.
> I'll adopt the cycle ID approach and build LDC on it as a separate patch.

Heikki made some reasonable arguments against the cycle-ID idea.  I'm
not intending to insist on it ...

I do think there are multiple issues here and it'd be better to try
to separate the fixes into different patches.
        regards, tom lane


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