> > Hi hackers,
> >
> > When doing a whole database repack, we build a list of repackable
> > tables and take a lock on them to prevent concurrent drops. But
> > concurrent drops can always happen after we build the list because
> > we process each table in a separate transaction.
>
> Not only that. We have actually three ways to obtain the list of tables
> to repack, and only one of these obtains the locks. So this code is
> internally inconsistent. I agree that we should do something like your
> patch. I wanted to be a little more defensive though; how about the
> attached?
- classtup = SearchSysCache1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(index->indrelid));
+ classtup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(index->indrelid));
Do we really need to copy it? We hold a refcount on it so it won't be freed
until we release it. Otherwise LGTM.
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Regards,
ChangAo Chen
