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Retry after buffer locking failure during SPGiST index creation.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 2 Nov 2013 20:45:42 +0000 (16:45 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 2 Nov 2013 20:45:57 +0000 (16:45 -0400)
commita1c3d54fb6b9fd974fa4d0166bfd1fde30c8d8c2
treebb44e0bb5f9ad361ae0717fee67d0351cbde6b71
parent2f2507e38374b7e2d5badc210a8d1fa6fecab60a
Retry after buffer locking failure during SPGiST index creation.

The original coding thought this case was impossible, but it can happen
if the bgwriter or checkpointer processes decide to write out an index
page while creation is still proceeding, leading to a bogus "unexpected
spgdoinsert() failure" error.  Problem reported by Jonathan S. Katz.

Teodor Sigaev
src/backend/access/spgist/spgdoinsert.c
src/backend/access/spgist/spginsert.c