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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-08-16 13:12:23 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-08-16 13:12:23 -0400
commit8407a11c5a004671142a9ac2fe29de3844360b0b (patch)
tree20dda460bf0bd7e152802d42f50c0dc8ba2e0c49 /src/backend/access/gist/gistsplit.c
parentd52555576887cb408b11589a2c07d5b2d06f892d (diff)
Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation.
The previous code tried to synchronize by unlinking the init file twice, but that doesn't actually work: it leaves a window wherein a third process could read the already-stale init file but miss the SI messages that would tell it the data is stale. The result would be bizarre failures in catalog accesses, typically "could not read block 0 in file ..." later during startup. Instead, hold RelCacheInitLock across both the unlink and the sending of the SI messages. This is more straightforward, and might even be a bit faster since only one unlink call is needed. This has been wrong since it was put in (in 2002!), so back-patch to all supported releases.
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