On 2016-06-10 11:58:26 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote: > I have tried in multiple ways by running pgbench with read-write tests, but > could not see any such behaviour.
It took over an hour of pgbench on a fast laptop till I saw it. > I have tried by even crashing and > restarting the server and then again running pgbench. Do you see these > records on master or slave? Master, but with an existing standby. So it could be related to hot_standby_feedback or such. > While looking at code in this area, I observed that during replay of > records (heap_xlog_delete), we first clear the vm, then update the page. > So we don't have Buffer lock while updating the vm where as in the patch > (collect_corrupt_items()), we are relying on the fact that for clearing vm > bit one needs to acquire buffer lock. Can that cause a problem? Unsetting a vm bit is always safe, right? The invariant is that the VM may never falsely say all_visible/frozen, but it's perfectly ok for a page to be all_visible/frozen, without the VM bit being present. Andres -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers