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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2013-04-20 16:59:41 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2013-04-20 16:59:41 -0400
commiteab46ee07fa317a8d374790def55726d9e414b88 (patch)
tree6af3e10c25c7a2b60f6f47ffcbe6db29e4c734bb /doc/src
parent2534ac426d2dc9270e2cccf2d64c11879bc71825 (diff)
Fix longstanding race condition in plancache.c.
When creating or manipulating a cached plan for a transaction control command (particularly ROLLBACK), we must not perform any catalog accesses, since we might be in an aborted transaction. However, plancache.c busily saved or examined the search_path for every cached plan. If we were unlucky enough to do this at a moment where the path's expansion into schema OIDs wasn't already cached, we'd do some catalog accesses; and with some more bad luck such as an ill-timed signal arrival, that could lead to crashes or Assert failures, as exhibited in bug #8095 from Nachiket Vaidya. Fortunately, there's no real need to consider the search path for such commands, so we can just skip the relevant steps when the subject statement is a TransactionStmt. This is somewhat related to bug #5269, though the failure happens during initial cached-plan creation rather than revalidation. This bug has been there since the plan cache was invented, so back-patch to all supported branches.
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