Re: hash_xlog_split_allocate_page: failed to acquire cleanup lock

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 4:30 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2022-10-17 13:34:02 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I don't feel quite as confident that not attempting a cleanup lock on
> > the new bucket's primary page is OK. I think it should be fine. The
> > existing comment even says it should be fine. But, that comment could
> > be wrong, and I'm not sure that I have my head around what all of the
> > possible interactions around that cleanup lock are. So changing it
> > makes me a little nervous.
>
> If it's not OK, then the acquire-cleanuplock-after-reinit would be an
> active bug though, right?

Yes, probably so.

Another approach here would be to have something like _hash_getnewbuf
that does not use RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK or call _hash_pageinit, and then
call _hash_pageinit here, perhaps just before nopaque =
HashPageGetOpaque(npage), so that it's within the critical section.
But that doesn't feel very consistent with the rest of the code.

Maybe just nuking the IsBufferCleanupOK call is best, I don't know. I
honestly doubt that it matters very much what we pick here.

-- 
Robert Haas
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