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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-08-16 13:11:54 -0400 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-08-16 13:11:54 -0400 |
commit | 2ada6779c5d3fcc31568ba263f8a0cc9bb8318c1 (patch) | |
tree | 7744d0ff44bd14e6deb910da2c2343885ecd3b55 /src/backend/commands/cluster.c | |
parent | 1bb69245ab234634013c543927e6fa76009622fa (diff) | |
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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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