Re: elog during holding a spinlock is safe?

On 15/09/10 05:47, Tom Lane wrote:
> Fujii Masao<masao.fujii@gmail.com>  writes:
>> In HEAD, OwnLatch can elog during holding the spinlock WalSnd->mutex.
>> This seems to be unsafe
>
> Even if it were safe, holding a spinlock through non-straight-line code
> is a complete violation of the spinlock coding rules re the length of
> time you're supposed to hold the lock.  Heikki?

Yep, that's an oversight. I'll move the OwnLatch call after the spinlock 
is released.

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