On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:57 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 7:18 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:18 AM, Alexander Korotkov
> > <a.korot...@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 9:27 AM, Thomas Munro
> >>> >  If that is indeed a race, could it be fixed by
> >>> > calling PredicateLockPageSplit() at the start of _hash_splitbucket()
> >>> > instead?
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> Yes, but I think it would be better if we call this once we are sure
> >>> that at least one tuple from the old bucket has been transferred
> >>> (consider if all tuples in the old bucket are dead).
> >>
> >>
> >> Is it really fair?  For example, predicate lock can be held by session
> >> which queried some key, but didn't find any corresponding tuple.
> >> If we imagine this key should be in new bucket while all existing
> >> tuples would be left in old bucket.  As I get, in this case no locks
> >> would be transferred since no tuples were moved to the new bucket.
> >> So, further insertion to the new bucket wouldn't conflict with session,
> >> which looked for non-existing key, while it should.  Do it make sense?
> >>
> >
> > Valid point, I think on split we should always transfer locks from old
> > bucket to new bucket.
> >
>
> Attached patch changes it as per above suggestion.


OK.  Now patch looks good for me.

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