On 2012-11-30 14:08:05 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > BTW, I went looking for other places that might have a similar mistake. > I found that contrib/pageinspect/btreefuncs.c pokes around in btree > pages without any buffer lock, which seems pretty broken --- don't we > want it to take share lock?
I seem to remember comments somewhere indicating that pageinspect (?) doesn't take locks by intention to make debugging of locking problems easier. Not sure whether thats really realistic, but ... Andres -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
