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diff --git a/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c b/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c
index 8fa17ab2350..41c3b867912 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c,v 1.353 2007/06/14 13:53:14 alvherre Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c,v 1.354 2007/08/01 22:45:08 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include "access/heapam.h"
#include "access/transam.h"
#include "access/xact.h"
+#include "access/xlog.h"
#include "catalog/namespace.h"
#include "catalog/pg_database.h"
#include "commands/dbcommands.h"
@@ -1162,6 +1163,16 @@ full_vacuum_rel(Relation onerel, VacuumStmt *vacstmt)
vacuum_set_xid_limits(vacstmt->freeze_min_age, onerel->rd_rel->relisshared,
&OldestXmin, &FreezeLimit);
+ /*
+ * VACUUM FULL assumes that all tuple states are well-known prior to
+ * moving tuples around --- see comment "known dead" in repair_frag(),
+ * as well as simplifications in tqual.c. So before we start we must
+ * ensure that any asynchronously-committed transactions with changes
+ * against this table have been flushed to disk. It's sufficient to do
+ * this once after we've acquired AccessExclusiveLock.
+ */
+ XLogAsyncCommitFlush();
+
/*
* Set up statistics-gathering machinery.
*/
@@ -2373,8 +2384,15 @@ repair_frag(VRelStats *vacrelstats, Relation onerel,
* exclusive access to the relation. However, that would require a
* lot of extra code to close and re-open the relation, indexes, etc.
* For now, a quick hack: record status of current transaction as
- * committed, and continue.
+ * committed, and continue. We force the commit to be synchronous
+ * so that it's down to disk before we truncate. (Note: tqual.c
+ * knows that VACUUM FULL always uses sync commit, too.)
+ *
+ * XXX This desperately needs to be revisited. Any failure after
+ * this point will result in a PANIC "cannot abort transaction nnn,
+ * it was already committed"!
*/
+ ForceSyncCommit();
RecordTransactionCommit();
}