Re: remove spurious CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY wait

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: remove spurious CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY wait
Date: 2021-11-11 12:38:07
Message-ID: 202111111238.5sql3jupeshe@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Nov-10, Andres Freund wrote:

> > Reverts 27838981be9d (some comments are kept). Per discussion, it does
> > not seem safe to relax the lock level used for this; in order for it to
> > be safe, there would have to be memory barriers between the point we set
> > the flag and the point we set the trasaction Xid, which perhaps would
> > not be so bad; but there would also have to be barriers at the readers'
> > side, which from a performance perspective might be bad.
> >
> > Now maybe this analysis is wrong and it *is* safe for some reason, but
> > proof of that is not trivial.
>
> I just noticed that this commit (dcfff74fb16) didn't revert the change of lock
> level in ReplicationSlotRelease(). Was that intentional?

Hmm, no, that seems to have been a mistake. I'll restore it.

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Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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