Re: dsa_allocate() faliure - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: dsa_allocate() faliure
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYHc6_oLdE5fSgtmTUouJvTGTOSOcHfFJoyvTMi3FeQ3Q@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: dsa_allocate() faliure  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 1:55 AM Thomas Munro
<thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Bleugh.  Yeah.  What I said before wasn't quite right.  The value
> returned by FreePageManagerPutInternal() is actually correct at the
> moment it is returned, but it ceases to be correct immediately
> afterwards if the following call to FreePageBtreeCleanup() happens to
> reduce the size of that particular span.  The problem is that we
> clobber fpm->contiguous_pages with the earlier (and by now incorrect)
> value that we were holding in a local variable.

Yeah, I had similar bugs to that during the initial development work I
did on freepage.c, and that's why I got rid of some lazy recomputation
thing that I had tried at some point.  The version that got committed
brought that back again, but possibly it's got the same kind of
problem.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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