Re: Question regarding heap_multi_insert documentation

Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:40:20 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 13 Jan 2020, at 00:25, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> writes:
>> The part I don't understand is "otherwise there race condition", it doesn't
>> sound complete to me as a non-native english speaker.  Should that really be
>> "otherwise there *is a (potential)* race condition" or something similar?
> 
> I agree, it's missing "is a".

Thanks for clarifying. PFA tiny patch for this.

cheers ./daniel
multiinsert_comment.diff (application/octet-stream, 854 B)
diff --git a/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c b/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
index 7b8490d4e5..5ddb6e85e9 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
@@ -2145,7 +2145,7 @@ heap_multi_insert(Relation relation, TupleTableSlot **slots, int ntuples,
 	 * that check MUST be done at least past the point of acquiring an
 	 * exclusive buffer content lock on every buffer that will be affected,
 	 * and MAY be done after all inserts are reflected in the buffers and
-	 * those locks are released; otherwise there race condition.  Since
+	 * those locks are released; otherwise there is a race condition.  Since
 	 * multiple buffers can be locked and unlocked in the loop below, and it
 	 * would not be feasible to identify and lock all of those buffers before
 	 * the loop, we must do a final check at the end.