Re: slru.c race condition (was Re: TRAP: FailedAssertion("!((itemid)->lp_flags

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:34:17PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> There is no way if the system has some incorrect value whether that
> would later corrupt the data or not.  Anything the system does that it
> shouldn't do is a potential corruption problem.

But is it safe to say that there are areas where a failed assert is far
more likely to result in data corruption? And that there's also areas
where there's likely to be difficult/impossible to find bugs, such as
race conditions? ISTM that it would be valuable to do some additional
checking in these critical areas.
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