Re: Why are we PageInit'ing buffers in RelationAddExtraBlocks()?

Hi,

On 2019-01-28 15:49:33 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2019-01-28 18:08:59 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > > I'm inclined to put back the
> > > LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
> > > LockRelationForExtension(onerel, ExclusiveLock);
> > > UnlockRelationForExtension(onerel, ExclusiveLock);
> > > LockBufferForCleanup(buf);
> > > if (PageIsNew(page))
> > > dance regardless, just to get the buildfarm to green?
> >
> > The buildfarm's got half a dozen reports now of a failure of this ilk,
> > so you'd better do something.
>
> Yea, I was working on a patch. Was trying to come up with an explanation
> of how this can be realistically hit on the BF, but failed. I've pushed
> something now, let's see whether that fixes it.

It has not. Given that I don't understand what's happening here I'm
going to revert both commits unless I figure it out in the next ~30min.

Greetings,

Andres Freund