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From: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Matthias van de Meent <[email protected]>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Michail Nikolaev <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [SP-]GiST IOS visibility bug (was: Why doens't GiST require super-exclusive lock)
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 23:39:20 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEze2WgH13m=MDST58KLo-NkZpbwBEt4xNWcgtghWBwRj3J0+A@mail.gmail.com>

On 2025-Apr-25, Matthias van de Meent wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In the original thread [0] we established that GIST and SP-GiST
> support index-only scans, but don't have sufficient interlocking to
> prevent dead tuples from being revived for their scan by vacuum.

Hello,

This commitfest entry
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/5721/
is stale.  I would have brought it forward because it's tagged as a bug
fix, but the patches look a bit intimidating to consider it a
backpatchable bug fix.  So, what's the status here?

Thanks

-- 
Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

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