From 58d4f951ea193db219e9da66e07c73b8aa3f06db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:50:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure to hold an exclusive lock while reindexing a relation.
 This is mainly to help developers to understand the code.

---
 src/backend/catalog/index.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/index.c b/src/backend/catalog/index.c
index d3f866236f..4dbc1648c1 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/index.c
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/index.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/catalog/index.c,v 1.159 2001/08/10 18:57:33 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/catalog/index.c,v 1.160 2001/08/17 23:50:00 inoue Exp $
  *
  *
  * INTERFACE ROUTINES
@@ -2016,11 +2016,16 @@ reindex_relation(Oid relid, bool force)
 	if (IsIgnoringSystemIndexes())
 		upd_pg_class_inplace = true;
 
+	/*
+	 *	Ensure to hold an exclusive lock throughout the
+	 *	transaction. The lock could be less intensive
+	 *	but now it's AccessExclusiveLock for simplicity.
+	 */
+	rel = heap_open(relid, AccessExclusiveLock);
 	/*
 	 * ignore the indexes of the target system relation while processing
 	 * reindex.
 	 */
-	rel = RelationIdGetRelation(relid);
 	if (!IsIgnoringSystemIndexes() && IsSystemRelationName(NameStr(rel->rd_rel->relname)))
 		deactivate_needed = true;
 #ifndef ENABLE_REINDEX_NAILED_RELATIONS
@@ -2055,7 +2060,10 @@ reindex_relation(Oid relid, bool force)
 		else
 			elog(ERROR, "the target relation %u is shared", relid);
 	}
-	RelationClose(rel);
+	/*
+	 *	Continue to hold the lock.
+	 */
+	heap_close(rel, NoLock);
 
 	old = SetReindexProcessing(true);
 	if (deactivate_needed)
-- 
2.40.0