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authorTom Lane2005-01-03 18:49:41 +0000
committerTom Lane2005-01-03 18:49:41 +0000
commitc9d8edc9064a09dad7cd964144e3b3a915212ed7 (patch)
treefc1ec7d3918f3760df84a9892aeb9f2dc98835fe /doc/FAQ
parent4ea43bdfdf377a0e400f1e1c2fc6f4e2407b5740 (diff)
Repair bufmgr deadlock problem reported by Michael Wildpaner. Must take
share lock on a buffer being written out before releasing BufMgrLock in the BufferAlloc code path; if we do it later we might block on someone who's re-pinned the buffer. I believe this is only an issue for BufferAlloc and not the other places that call FlushBuffer. BufferSync must continue to do it the old way since it may well be trying to write buffers that other backends have pinned; but it should not be holding any conflicting locks. FlushRelationBuffers is okay since it's got exclusive lock at the relation level.
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