Re: Race condition in b-tree page deletion

On 12/17/2013 03:57 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> I agree with others that this patch is not suitable for
> back-patching.  I wonder whether some other solution might be worth
> back-patching, since it is clearly a bug.  The "never delete
> internal pages" might be safe enough to consider.  It would lead to
> some degree of bloat, but perhaps bloat is better than errors.  Of
> course, the argument can certainly be made that people hit the bug
> so rarely that we're better off just leaving it alone in stable
> branches.  Anyway, that would be a different patch.

I don't think "never delete internal pages" would be acceptable. In 
particular, it would bloat indefinitely for a smallish FIFO queue table 
with a timestamp column.

- Heikki