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

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: "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>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2017-12-23T20:26:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I noticed that I'm committer for this patch in the commitfest, though I
don't remember setting that.  Are you expecting me to commit it?  I
thought you'd do it, but if you want me to assume the responsibility I
can do that.

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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.