SSI patch version 10

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Anssi Kääriäinen <anssi.kaariainen@thl.fi>
Cc: "Dan Ports" <drkp@csail.mit.edu>, "john.okite@gmail.org" <john.okite@gmail.org>
Date: 2011-01-11T23:27:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Anssi Kääriäinen<anssi.kaariainen@thl.fi> wrote:
 
> something seems to be broken when using partial indexes.
 
Boy do I feel dumb for taking all day to find the cause.
 
The problem was a misdirected optimization -- on an update it was
only checking the "after" image for conflict, assuming that it would
be redundant to check both the before and after images.  The problem
is that with a partial index, you might only see one of those
tuples, and I suspect there could be bugs with updates which changed
a value later used for access.
 
The evil premature optimization is eliminated here:
 
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=users/kgrittn/postgres.git;a=commitdiff;h=a9c63f9c688629e2f6f92a880c5f1ac9669bf77d
 
This also includes an attempt to eliminate the assertion failure Dan
found in DBT-2 testing yesterday.  I'm not sure if this change is
radical enough, but I figured it was better to try the minimal
change first, and see if that was sufficient.  If not, I'll have to
move some code between functions, and duplicate a bit of code.
 
New patch (version 10) attached.
 
-Kevin