On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 5:46 PM Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote: > Teodor: Do you think that the issue is fixable? It looks like there > are serious issues with the design of 218f51584d5 to me. I don't think > the general "there can't be any inserters at this subtree" thing works > given that we have to couple buffer locks when moving right for other > reasons. We call ginStepRight() within ginFinishSplit(), for reasons > that date back to bug fix commit ac4ab97e from 2013 -- that detail is > probably important, because it seems to be what breaks the subtree > design (we don't delete in two phases or anything in GIN).
Ping? This is a thorny problem, and I'd like to get your input soon. I suspect that reverting 218f51584d5 may be the ultimate outcome, even though it's a v10 feature. -- Peter Geoghegan
