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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-08-16 13:12:17 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-08-16 13:12:17 -0400
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Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation.
The previous code tried to synchronize by unlinking the init file twice, but that doesn't actually work: it leaves a window wherein a third process could read the already-stale init file but miss the SI messages that would tell it the data is stale. The result would be bizarre failures in catalog accesses, typically "could not read block 0 in file ..." later during startup. Instead, hold RelCacheInitLock across both the unlink and the sending of the SI messages. This is more straightforward, and might even be a bit faster since only one unlink call is needed. This has been wrong since it was put in (in 2002!), so back-patch to all supported releases.
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