Re: race condition in pg_class

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 10:02:00PM +0200, Michail Nikolaev wrote:
> > Can you say more about the connection you see between $SUBJECT and that?
> That
> > looks like a valid report of an important bug, but I'm not following the
> > potential relationship to $SUBJECT.
> 
> I was guided by the following logic:
> * A pg_class race condition can cause table indexes to look stale.
> * REINDEX updates indexes
> * errors can be explained by different backends using different arbiter
> indexes

Got it.  The race condition of $SUBJECT involves inplace updates, and the
wrong content becomes permanent.  Hence, I suspect they're unrelated.