Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> As a proposed fix, instead of acquiring the CheckpointStartLock in
>> RecordTransactionCommit, we set a flag in MyProc saying "commit in
>> progress". Checkpoint will scan through the procarray and make note of
>> any commit in progress transactions, after computing the new redo record
>> ptr, and wait for all of them to finish before flushing clog.
>
> What sort of "wait for finish" mechanism do you have in mind? While
> I've always thought CheckpointStartLock is a pretty ugly solution,
> I'm not sure the above is better.
I was thinking of XactLockTableWait.
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