Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.5 items

> >
> > Hiroshi wrote:
> >
> > 2.
> > > spinlock io_in_progress_lock of a buffer page is not
> > > released by operations called by elog() such as
> > > ProcReleaseSpins(),ResetBufferPool() etc.
> >
> > I tried to fix this before 6.4 but without success (don't
> > remember why).
> >
>
> This is not in my must-fix-for-6.5 lists.
> For the present this is caused by other bugs not by bufmgr/smgr itself
> and an easy fix may introduce other bugs.
>
>
> And on segmented relations.
>
> Ole Gjerde who provided the patch for current implementation of
> mdtruncate() sayz.
> "First, please reverse my patch to mdtruncate() in md.c as soon as
> possible. It does not work properly in some cases."
>
> I also recommend to reverse his patch to mdtruncate().
>
> Though we could not shrink segmented relations by old implementation
> the result by vacuum would never be inconsistent(?).
>
> I think we don't have enough time to fix this.

So what do we put in its place when we reverse out the patch?

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