On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> What's bothering me is (a) it's less than 24 hours to release wrap and
> (b) this patch changes SSI-relevant behavior and hasn't been approved
> by Kevin. I'm not familiar enough with that logic to commit a change
> in it on my own authority, especially with so little time for problems
> to be uncovered.
I should point out that I knew that the next set of point releases had
been moved forward much later than you did. I had to work on this fix
during the week, which was pretty far from ideal for me for my own
reasons.
> I'm okay with adding an explicit buffer lock/unlock pair, and in fact
> plan to go have a look at that in a bit. I'm not okay with doing a
> refactoring that might change the behavior in more ways than that
> under these circumstances.
Fair enough. As long as we do that much, I'm comfortable.
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Peter Geoghegan