Fix logical decoding error when system table w/ toast is repeatedly rewritten.

Repeatedly rewriting a mapped catalog table with VACUUM FULL or
CLUSTER could cause logical decoding to fail with:
ERROR, "could not map filenode \"%s\" to relation OID"

To trigger the problem the rewritten catalog had to have live tuples
with toasted columns.

The problem was triggered as during catalog table rewrites the
heap_insert() check that prevents logical decoding information to be
emitted for system catalogs, failed to treat the new heap's toast table
as a system catalog (because the new heap is not recognized as a
catalog table via RelationIsLogicallyLogged()). The relmapper, in
contrast to the normal catalog contents, does not contain historical
information. After a single rewrite of a mapped table the new relation
is known to the relmapper, but if the table is rewritten twice before
logical decoding occurs, the relfilenode cannot be mapped to a
relation anymore.  Which then leads us to error out.   This only
happens for toast tables, because the main table contents aren't
re-inserted with heap_insert().

The fix is simple, add a new heap_insert() flag that prevents logical
decoding information from being emitted, and accept during decoding
that there might not be tuple data for toast tables.

Unfortunately that does not fix pre-existing logical decoding
errors. Doing so would require not throwing an error when a filenode
cannot be mapped to a relation during decoding, and that seems too
likely to hide bugs.  If it's crucial to fix decoding for an existing
slot, temporarily changing the ERROR in ReorderBufferCommit() to a
WARNING appears to be the best fix.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180914021046.oi7dm4ra3ot2g2kt@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.4-, where logical decoding was introduced

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c b/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
index ed8dbae0d24..e873e1617e4 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
@@ -2036,6 +2036,18 @@ FreeBulkInsertState(BulkInsertState bistate)
  * This causes rows to be frozen, which is an MVCC violation and
  * requires explicit options chosen by user.
  *
+ * HEAP_INSERT_SPECULATIVE is used on so-called "speculative insertions",
+ * which can be backed out afterwards without aborting the whole transaction.
+ * Other sessions can wait for the speculative insertion to be confirmed,
+ * turning it into a regular tuple, or aborted, as if it never existed.
+ * Speculatively inserted tuples behave as "value locks" of short duration,
+ * used to implement INSERT .. ON CONFLICT.
+ *
+ * HEAP_INSERT_NO_LOGICAL force-disables the emitting of logical decoding
+ * information for the tuple. This should solely be used during table rewrites
+ * where RelationIsLogicallyLogged(relation) is not yet accurate for the new
+ * relation.
+ *
  * Note that these options will be applied when inserting into the heap's
  * TOAST table, too, if the tuple requires any out-of-line data.
  *
@@ -2138,7 +2150,8 @@ heap_insert(Relation relation, HeapTuple tup, CommandId cid,
 		 * Also, if this is a catalog, we need to transmit combocids to
 		 * properly decode, so log that as well.
 		 */
-		need_tuple_data = RelationIsLogicallyLogged(relation);
+		need_tuple_data = RelationIsLogicallyLogged(relation) &&
+			!(options & HEAP_INSERT_NO_LOGICAL);
 		if (RelationIsAccessibleInLogicalDecoding(relation))
 			log_heap_new_cid(relation, heaptup);
 
@@ -2325,6 +2338,9 @@ heap_multi_insert(Relation relation, HeapTuple *tuples, int ntuples,
 	bool		need_tuple_data = RelationIsLogicallyLogged(relation);
 	bool		need_cids = RelationIsAccessibleInLogicalDecoding(relation);
 
+	/* currently not needed (thus unsupported) for heap_multi_insert() */
+	AssertArg(!(options & HEAP_INSERT_NO_LOGICAL));
+
 	needwal = !(options & HEAP_INSERT_SKIP_WAL) && RelationNeedsWAL(relation);
 	saveFreeSpace = RelationGetTargetPageFreeSpace(relation,
 												   HEAP_DEFAULT_FILLFACTOR);