Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix freezing of a dead HOT-updated tuple

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, "Wood, Dan" <hexpert@amazon.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, pgsql-committers@postgresql.org, "Wong, Yi Wen" <yiwong@amazon.com>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2017-11-02T13:58:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> Do we care about people upgrading to unreleased versions? We could do
> nothing, document it in the release notes, or ???

Do nothing.

			regards, tom lane


Commits

  1. Backport addition of rs_old_rel to rewriteheap's state.

  2. Perform a lot more sanity checks when freezing tuples.

  3. Revert bogus fixes of HOT-freezing bug

  4. Fix traversal of half-frozen update chains

  5. Fix freezing of a dead HOT-updated tuple

  6. During index build, check and elog (not just Assert) for broken HOT chain.

  7. Fix WAL replay of locking an updated tuple

  8. Change the way we mark tuples as frozen.