Re: Deadlock condition in current sources

Vadim Mikheev <vmikheev@sectorbase.com>

From: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>
To: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-12-18T18:55:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> However, there's still a problem: GetUndoRecPtr also gets SInvalLock
> while its caller holds WALInsertLock, and therefore this routine
> could create the second leg of the deadlock too.  Removing the
> SInvalLock lock there creates the problem that backends might be
> added to or deleted from the PROC array while GetUndoRecPtr runs.
> I think it might be possible to survive that, by adding an assumption
> that logRec.xrecoff can be set to zero atomically, but it 
> seems tricky.

Checkpoint' undo is not used currently so just comment out GetUndoRecPtr
call in CreateCheckPoint - we'll find solution later.

Vadim