Re: SSI memory mitigation & false positive degradation

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
 
> Looking at the predicate lock splitting, it occurs to me that
> it's possible for a non-serializable transaction to be canceled if
> it needs to split a predicate lock held by a concurrent
> serializable transaction, and you run out of space in the shared
> memory predicate lock area.
 
Good point.  We don't want that, for sure.
 
> Any chance of upgrading the lock to a relation lock, or killing
> the serializable transaction instead?
 
Absolutely.  Good suggestion.  Thanks!
 
-Kevin