Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> We'd have to make sure zero is never the *correct* value of the offset, >> but that just means wasting one word, which seems no problem.
> In theory it's possible for only half the word to be written or even to have > outright garbage show up. In practice I think there are no actual > architectures where this can really happen though. Not an issue, because we have a lock around the read or write of the slru buffer page. The problem is that there's no lock continuously held through the creation of a multixact entry, and we don't really wish to add one ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster