Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix freezing of a dead HOT-updated tuple

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: "Wood, Dan" <hexpert(at)amazon(dot)com>, "Wong, Yi Wen" <yiwong(at)amazon(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix freezing of a dead HOT-updated tuple
Date: 2017-10-06 13:36:17
Message-ID: CAB7nPqS_CrdeHEKHd_biUx_Ua3-HWxu3phbbs4PripvpfZvbwQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> Wood, Dan wrote:
>> Yes, I’ve been testing 9.6. I’ll try Alvaro’s patch today.
>>
>> I would prefer to focus on either latest 9X or 11dev.
>
> I tested my patch on 9.4 and 9.5 today and it seems to close the problem
> (with the patch, I waited 10x as many iterations as it took for the
> problem to occur ~10 times without the patch), but I can reproduce a
> problem in 9.6 with my patch installed. There must be something new in
> 9.6 that is causing the problem to reappear.

The freeze visibility map has been introduced in 9.6... There could be
interactions on this side.
--
Michael

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