"Qingqing Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yeah, you are right. I scratched elog/ereport(FATAL/PANIC), only found this
> one might be a suspect:

>  In _hash_expandtable():

>  if (!_hash_try_getlock(rel, start_nblkno, HASH_EXCLUSIVE))
>   elog(PANIC, "could not get lock on supposedly new bucket");

> Or maybe elog(PANIC) is a false alarm here?

[ eyes code... ]  I think the reason it wants to PANIC is because it's
already hacked up the hash metapage in shared buffers, and it needs
to prevent that update from getting written out.  A CRIT_SECTION
would probably be a better answer --- thanks for spotting that.

                        regards, tom lane

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