Re: 7.2.3 vacuum bug

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 7.2.3 vacuum bug
Date: 2002-11-02 04:52:33
Message-ID: 17751.1036212753@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Is this a TODO?

Yes. Maybe

* Acquire lock on a relation before building a relcache entry for it

I'm not quite sure yet how this should interact with the case where
you already have a relcache entry, but certainly the existing behavior
of "build the whole entry and then acquire lock" is not good.

regards, tom lane

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