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Robert Haas b50991eedb Fix more crash-safe visibility map bugs, and improve comments.
In lazy_scan_heap, we could issue bogus warnings about incorrect
information in the visibility map, because we checked the visibility
map bit before locking the heap page, creating a race condition.  Fix
by rechecking the visibility map bit before we complain.  Rejigger
some related logic so that we rely on the possibly-outdated
all_visible_according_to_vm value as little as possible.

In heap_multi_insert, it's not safe to clear the visibility map bit
before beginning the critical section.  The visibility map is not
crash-safe unless we treat clearing the bit as a critical operation.
Specifically, if the transaction were to error out after we set the
bit and before entering the critical section, we could end up writing
the heap page to disk (with the bit cleared) and crashing before the
visibility map page made it to disk.  That would be bad.  heap_insert
has this correct, but somehow the order of operations got rearranged
when heap_multi_insert was added.

Also, add some more comments to visibilitymap_test, lazy_scan_heap,
and IndexOnlyNext, expounding on concurrency issues.

Per extensive code review by Andres Freund, and further review by Tom
Lane, who also made the original report about the bogus warnings.
2012-06-07 12:48:13 -04:00
config Put back AC_REQUIRE([AC_STRUCT_TM]). 2012-05-14 23:06:48 -04:00
contrib Fix some more bugs in contrib/xml2's xslt_process(). 2012-06-04 20:12:50 -04:00
doc Fix typo 2012-06-05 14:08:56 +02:00
src Fix more crash-safe visibility map bugs, and improve comments. 2012-06-07 12:48:13 -04:00
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.