Re: Multiple table entries?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Multiple table entries?
Date: 2009-08-23 19:51:08
Message-ID: 3282.1251057068@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Urgh. I bet that's where the problem is then. Some path is failing
>> to clear that bit, or maybe there's a race condition that allows it
>> to become set incorrectly (ie right after somebody else adds a tuple).

> Well it only gets set in vacuum when we have the vacuum cleanout lock
> so I can't see it getting set incorrectly unless there's a simple
> logic error in vacuum. I just scanned it and it looks right to me.

heap_update is broken. Details left as an exercise for the reader
(hint: Heikki has blatantly ignored the WAL-logging rules in transam/README)

regards, tom lane

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