Re: We're leaking predicate locks in HEAD

Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Reproduced here. Once the system reaches a state where it's leaking
> (which happens only occasionally for me during installcheck-parallel),
> it keeps leaking for future SSI transactions. The cause is
> SxactGlobalXmin getting stuck. The attached fixes it for me. I can't
> remember why on earth I made that change, but it is quite clearly
> wrong: you have to check every transaction, or you might never advance
> SxactGlobalXmin.

Hm. So I don't have any opinion about whether this is a correct fix for
the leak, but I am quite distressed that the system failed to notice that
it was leaking predicate locks. Shouldn't there be the same sort of
leak-detection infrastructure that we have for most types of resources?

regards, tom lane