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authorAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>2020-03-28 11:52:11 -0700
committerAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>2020-03-28 12:05:05 -0700
commit820f21a93f0bb92dde9fee5dbc3c68fd9be06579 (patch)
treece47a0d093a06839e984e91ec1ceab62a7f93795
parent4bfacc5a441101614744a66322f12f50a0131b65 (diff)
Ensure snapshot is registered within ScanPgRelation().
In 9.4 I added support to use a historical snapshot in ScanPgRelation(), while adding logical decoding. Unfortunately a conflict with the concurrent removal of SnapshotNow was incorrectly resolved, leading to an unregistered snapshot being used. It is not correct to use an unregistered (or non-active) snapshot for anything non-trivial, because catalog invalidations can cause the snapshot to be invalidated. Luckily it seems unlikely to actively cause problems in practice, as ScanPgRelation() requires that we already have a lock on the relation, we only look for a single row, and we don't appear to rely on the result's tid to be correct. It however is clearly wrong and potential negative consequences would likely be hard to find. So it seems worth backpatching the fix, even without a concrete hazard. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200229052459.wzhqnbhrriezg4v2@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.5-
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c b/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
index 6ec89fadd6c..038424da05f 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ ScanPgRelation(Oid targetRelId, bool indexOK, bool force_non_historic)
Relation pg_class_desc;
SysScanDesc pg_class_scan;
ScanKeyData key[1];
- Snapshot snapshot;
+ Snapshot snapshot = NULL;
/*
* If something goes wrong during backend startup, we might find ourselves
@@ -330,12 +330,12 @@ ScanPgRelation(Oid targetRelId, bool indexOK, bool force_non_historic)
/*
* The caller might need a tuple that's newer than the one the historic
* snapshot; currently the only case requiring to do so is looking up the
- * relfilenode of non mapped system relations during decoding.
+ * relfilenode of non mapped system relations during decoding. That
+ * snapshot cant't change in the midst of a relcache build, so there's no
+ * need to register the snapshot.
*/
if (force_non_historic)
snapshot = GetNonHistoricCatalogSnapshot(RelationRelationId);
- else
- snapshot = GetCatalogSnapshot(RelationRelationId);
pg_class_scan = systable_beginscan(pg_class_desc, ClassOidIndexId,
indexOK && criticalRelcachesBuilt,