Re: Buffer locking is special (hints, checksums, AIO writes) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 12:42 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > -     /*
> > -      * We better not already hold a lock on the buffer.
> > -      */
> >       Assert(entry->data.lockmode == BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
> >
>
> Err, this should have been removed, I accidentally re-added the hunk while
> experimenting.

I've been running into this assertion failure from time to time while
working on index prefetching. It seems to happen after a hard crash.
I've just been running initdb whenever it happens. It would be nice to
not have to do this again.

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Peter Geoghegan