On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am also clear on what the consequences of this bug are. It seems > like it could harm insert performance by making us wait when we > shouldn't, but can it cause corruption? That I'm not sure about. If > there's already a cleanup of the pending list in progress, how do > things go wrong?
While it was probably the right thing for you to go ahead and commit the patch, I think that the bug undermines whatever confidence there was in the correctness of the GIN pending list cleanup code. I have far more questions than answers right now, though. -- Peter Geoghegan
