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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: TopoSort() fix
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:21:57 -0400
Message-ID: <20190730032157.GA652@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3243.1564437314@sss.pgh.pa.us>

On 2019-Jul-29, Tom Lane wrote:

> FYI, I just got done inventing a way to reach that code, and I have
> to suspect that it's impossible to do so in production, because under
> ordinary circumstances no parallel worker will take any exclusive lock
> that isn't already held by its leader.

Hmm, okay, so this wasn't a bug that would have bit anyone in practice,
yeah?  That's reassuring.

Thanks,

-- 
Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services





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