Re: Alter index rename concurrently to

On 31/07/2018 23:25, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 27/07/2018 16:16, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> I also suspect that an appropriate fix might be to ensure that
>>> AcceptInvalidationMessages() is run at least once at the beginning of
>>> parse analysis.
>
>> Why don't we just do that?
>
> Don't we do that already? Certainly it should get run in advance of
> any relation name lookup. There is one at transaction start also,
> if memory serves.

Right, we do it at transaction start and when opening a relation with a
lock that you don't already have. Which I suppose in practice is almost
equivalent to at least once per command, but you can construct cases
where subsequent commands in a transaction use the all same tables as
the previous commands, in which case they don't run AIM() again.

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