On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
>> In order to reproduce the failure I have just inserted a manual
>> pg_usleep before looping through the list of orphan_oids, and after
>> dropping manually from another session a couple of orphaned temporary
>> tables I was able to see the failure. Attached is a proposal of patch.
>
> That's not really adequate, because acquiring the lock doesn't prove that
> the table still exists; you might just be holding a useless lock against
> a now-unused OID. You really need to do something to verify that the
> table's catalog entries are still visible after you have the lock.
Self-meh. That's where try_relation_open() would have been better...
Now it does not matter much, thanks for the input.
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Michael