Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> writes: > I came up with the attached fix. In a nutshell, when walking along a > right-link, the new page is locked before releasing the lock on the old > one. Also, never delete the leftmost branch of a posting tree. I believe > these changes are sufficient to fix the problem, because of the way the > posting tree is searched:
This seems reasonable, but I wonder whether the concurrency discussion shouldn't be in gist/README, rather than buried in a comment inside ginDeletePage (not exactly the first place one would think to look IMO). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers