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When loading critical system indexes into the relcache, ensure we lock the
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:07:28 +0000 (23:07 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:07:28 +0000 (23:07 +0000)
commitcfac3efb2f75d19b35f428fa4d248b4114cd0437
treef7316581395b6a26b7985b876999a9053cccabf0
parent483b17119a098e282968d2d2050345b97643599c
When loading critical system indexes into the relcache, ensure we lock the
underlying catalog not only the index itself.  Otherwise, if the cache
load process touches the catalog (which will happen for many though not
all of these indexes), we are locking index before parent table, which can
result in a deadlock against processes that are trying to lock them in the
normal order.  Per today's failure on buildfarm member gothic_moth; it's
surprising the problem hadn't been identified before.

Back-patch to 8.2.  Earlier releases didn't have the issue because they
didn't try to lock these indexes during load (instead assuming that they
couldn't change schema at all during multiuser operation).
src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c