Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry, I missed that. And you evidently still didn't understand it. Locking both pages does not fix the problem, because it doesn't guarantee that there's not a concurrent indexscan in flight from one to the other. If you move items from one page to the other in the opposite direction from the way the scan is going, then it will miss those items. If we try to fix this by making scans lock one page before releasing the previous, then we'll create a bunch of deadlock cases.
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