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    Be more careful about barriers when releasing BackgroundWorkerSlots. · 30d8bad4
    Tom Lane authored
    ForgetBackgroundWorker lacked any memory barrier at all, while
    BackgroundWorkerStateChange had one but unaccountably did
    additional manipulation of the slot after the barrier.  AFAICS,
    the rule must be that the barrier is immediately before setting
    or clearing slot->in_use.
    
    It looks like back in 9.6 when ForgetBackgroundWorker was first
    written, there might have been some case for not needing a
    barrier there, but I'm not very convinced of that --- the fact
    that the load of bgw_notify_pid is in the caller doesn't seem
    to guarantee no memory ordering problem.  So patch 9.6 too.
    
    It's likely that this doesn't fix any observable bug on Intel
    hardware, but machines with weaker memory ordering rules could
    have problems here.
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4046084.1620244003@sss.pgh.pa.us
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