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authorAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>2017-07-26 17:24:16 -0400
committerAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>2017-07-26 17:24:16 -0400
commit2efbfb94b8872362841d13f420ebcae7832e113d (patch)
treeb934be0de5ccc7d595782415d3a23eb27ebf8845 /src/backend/executor/functions.c
parent4ecee1192a02bb467ddf4e361523a751258f0991 (diff)
Fix concurrent locking of tuple update chain
If several sessions are concurrently locking a tuple update chain with nonconflicting lock modes using an old snapshot, and they all succeed, it may happen that some of them fail because of restarting the loop (due to a concurrent Xmax change) and getting an error in the subsequent pass while trying to obtain a tuple lock that they already have in some tuple version. This can only happen with very high concurrency (where a row is being both updated and FK-checked by multiple transactions concurrently), but it's been observed in the field and can have unpleasant consequences such as an FK check failing to see a tuple that definitely exists: ERROR: insert or update on table "child_table" violates foreign key constraint "fk_constraint_name" DETAIL: Key (keyid)=(123456) is not present in table "parent_table". (where the key is observably present in the table). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170714210011.r25mrff4nxjhmf3g@alvherre.pgsql
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