[HACKERS] strange behaviour (bug)

[Hiroshi Inoue]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikheev, Vadim [mailto:vmik...@SECTORBASE.COM]
>
> > Probably WAL would solve this phenomenon by rolling
> > back the content of disc and shared buffer in reality.
> > However if 7.0.x would be released we had better change
> > bufmgr IMHO.
>
> I'm going to handle btree split but currently there is no way
> to rollback it - we unlock splitted pages after parent
> is locked and concurrent backend may update one/both of
> siblings before we get our locks back.
> We have to continue with split or could leave parent unchanged
> and handle "my bits moved..." (ie continue split in another
> xaction if we found no parent for a page) ... or we could hold
> locks on all splitted pages till some parent updated without
> split, but I wouldn't do this.
>

It seems to me that btree split operations must always be
rolled forward even in case of abort/crash. DO you have
other ideas ?

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue