On 02/24/2016 06:56 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Tomas Vondra
> <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
...
>> Are we going to anything about this? While the bug is present in 9.5 (and
>> possibly other versions), fixing it before 9.6 gets out seems important
>> because reproducing it there is rather trivial (while I've been unable to
>> reproduce it on 9.5).
>
> I'm not going to promise to commit anything here, because GIN is not
> usually my area, but could you provide a link to the email that
> contains the patch you think should be committed?
Sure. There are actually two candidate patches in two separate threads,
I'm nots sure which one is better. Based on the testing both seem to fix
the issue and the "pending lock" patch produces much smaller indexes (at
least in my benchmark):
[1] http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/56041B26.2040902@sigaev.ru
[2]
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMkU=1w7Uu1GZ8N0bxMykRLgTh-uPH+GPHfhMNeryZPCv7fqdA@mail.gmail.com
regards
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