Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oh, certainly! In this case, may I point out that scan_heap() does not
> bother locking pages, mentioning that "we assume that holding exclusive
> lock on the relation will keep other backends from looking at the page".
> In particular, it calls PageRepairFragmentation which runs with the page
> unlocked AFAICT.
> Seems like a bug to me.
I agree --- and a pretty silly one considering that there are LockBuffer
calls elsewhere in vacuum.c. Wonder how old that code is ...
regards, tom lane
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