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Re: SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave and race conditions



"Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> So we suspected an interaction between multiple processes each holding
> a SHARE lock and setting/checking different bits in the infomask and
> we could theoritically say that such interaction can potentially lead to
> missing hint bit updates.

Yeah.  This is in fact something that's been foreseen, but I guess it
didn't occur to anyone that those Asserts would fail.  I concur with
removing them.

			regards, tom lane



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