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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-08-16 13:12:23 -0400 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-08-16 13:12:23 -0400 |
| commit | 8407a11c5a004671142a9ac2fe29de3844360b0b (patch) | |
| tree | 20dda460bf0bd7e152802d42f50c0dc8ba2e0c49 /src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c | |
| parent | d52555576887cb408b11589a2c07d5b2d06f892d (diff) | |
Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation.
The previous code tried to synchronize by unlinking the init file twice,
but that doesn't actually work: it leaves a window wherein a third process
could read the already-stale init file but miss the SI messages that would
tell it the data is stale. The result would be bizarre failures in catalog
accesses, typically "could not read block 0 in file ..." later during
startup.
Instead, hold RelCacheInitLock across both the unlink and the sending of
the SI messages. This is more straightforward, and might even be a bit
faster since only one unlink call is needed.
This has been wrong since it was put in (in 2002!), so back-patch to all
supported releases.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c b/src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c index e87b3641352..c5b55407dbc 100644 --- a/src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c +++ b/src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c @@ -795,10 +795,10 @@ inval_twophase_postcommit(TransactionId xid, uint16 info, SendSharedInvalidMessage(msg); break; case TWOPHASE_INFO_FILE_BEFORE: - RelationCacheInitFileInvalidate(true); + RelationCacheInitFilePreInvalidate(); break; case TWOPHASE_INFO_FILE_AFTER: - RelationCacheInitFileInvalidate(false); + RelationCacheInitFilePostInvalidate(); break; default: Assert(false); @@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ AtEOXact_Inval(bool isCommit) * unless we committed. */ if (transInvalInfo->RelcacheInitFileInval) - RelationCacheInitFileInvalidate(true); + RelationCacheInitFilePreInvalidate(); AppendInvalidationMessages(&transInvalInfo->PriorCmdInvalidMsgs, &transInvalInfo->CurrentCmdInvalidMsgs); @@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ AtEOXact_Inval(bool isCommit) SendSharedInvalidMessage); if (transInvalInfo->RelcacheInitFileInval) - RelationCacheInitFileInvalidate(false); + RelationCacheInitFilePostInvalidate(); } else if (transInvalInfo != NULL) { |