Hi,<br /><br /> > The fix is similar to the earlier commit by Tom. I tested this fix<br /><div
class="gmail_quote"><blockquoteclass="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204,
204,204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"> > against 8.3.13. We lock the parent catalog now before calling<br />
>index_open. Patch against git HEAD attached with this mail. I guess we<br /> > will backpatch this? Tom's last
commitwas backpatched till 8.2 I<br /> > think.<br /><br /></div>Is it really worth slowing down the startup
sequencefor every<br /> connection to avoid deadlocking against a very rare maintenance<br /> operation?<br /><font
color="#888888"><br/></font></blockquote><br /></div>Not really a performance issue AFAICS. If the relcache init file
exists,then the phase2 of the catalog cache which eventually calls the above code path is avoided.<br /><br
/>Regards,<br/>Nikhils<br /><br />