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    Avoid race in RelationBuildDesc() affecting CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. · dde966ef
    Noah Misch authored
    CIC and REINDEX CONCURRENTLY assume backends see their catalog changes
    no later than each backend's next transaction start.  That failed to
    hold when a backend absorbed a relevant invalidation in the middle of
    running RelationBuildDesc() on the CIC index.  Queries that use the
    resulting index can silently fail to find rows.  Fix this for future
    index builds by making RelationBuildDesc() loop until it finishes
    without accepting a relevant invalidation.  It may be necessary to
    reindex to recover from past occurrences; REINDEX CONCURRENTLY suffices.
    Back-patch to 9.6 (all supported versions).
    
    Noah Misch and Andrey Borodin, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Andres
    Freund.
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210730022548.GA1940096@gust.leadboat.com
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