Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > I did it that way (i.e. added locking) and then realized that it > > shouldn't really be a problem, because the only one who can be setting > > vacuum flags is the process itself. Other processes can only read the > > flags. > > It would still be a problem if there was any other fields that were > updated by other processes, adjacent to the vacuum flags. I don't think > that's the case, however.
Yeah, that's not the case currently. Tom is right in that it's fragile if we ever change the definition so that there is such a flag. Maybe this is solved by adding a comment however. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/5ZYLFMCVHXC Jude: I wish humans laid eggs Ringlord: Why would you want humans to lay eggs? Jude: So I can eat them ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
