Hi,
> The fix is similar to the earlier commit by Tom. I tested this fix
> against 8.3.13. We lock the parent catalog now before calling
> index_open. Patch against git HEAD attached with this mail. I guess we
> will backpatch this? Tom's last commit was backpatched till 8.2 I
> think.
Is it really worth slowing down the startup sequence for every
connection to avoid deadlocking against a very rare maintenance
operation?
Not really a performance issue AFAICS. If the relcache init file exists, then the phase2 of the catalog cache which eventually calls the above code path is avoided.
Regards,
Nikhils
