Re: [sqlsmith] Failed assertion in _hash_kill_items/MarkBufferDirtyHint

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, That is another option but the main idea was to be inline with
>> the btree code.
>
> That's not a bad goal in principal, but _bt_killitems() doesn't have
> any similar argument.
>
> (Also, speaking of consistency, why did we end up with
> _hash_kill_items, with an underscore between kill and items, and
> _bt_killitems, without one?)
>
>> Moreover, I am not sure if acquiring lwlock inside
>> hashendscan (basically the place where we are trying to close down the
>> things) would look good.
>
> Well, if that's not a good thing to do, hiding it inside some other
> function doesn't make it better.  I think it's fine, though.
>

One thing to note here is that this fix won't be required if we get
the page-scan-mode patch [1] in this CF.  I think if we fix this with
the patch proposed by Ashutosh, then we anyway needs to again change
the related code (kind of revert the fix) after page-scan-mode patch.
Now, if you think we have negligible chance of getting that patch,
then it is good to proceed with this fix.

[1] - https://commitfest.postgresql.org/13/999/