> > 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.

--
Regards,
ChangAo Chen

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