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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2010-01-24 21:49:39 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2010-01-24 21:49:39 +0000
commit7309f3340c46bdb8109e0465becbc078b1e1858a (patch)
tree93ab7462a25c2fa10eedf38d2a46221ed9fc3479 /src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
parent61da9c4e2520b3ec4735c8eee1c3adbe9c697ca2 (diff)
Fix assorted core dumps and Assert failures that could occur during
AbortTransaction or AbortSubTransaction, when trying to clean up after an error that prevented (sub)transaction start from completing: * access to TopTransactionResourceOwner that might not exist * assert failure in AtEOXact_GUC, if AtStart_GUC not called yet * assert failure or core dump in AfterTriggerEndSubXact, if AfterTriggerBeginSubXact not called yet Per testing by injecting elog(ERROR) at successive steps in StartTransaction and StartSubTransaction. It's not clear whether all of these cases could really occur in the field, but at least one of them is easily exposed by simple stress testing, as per my accidental discovery yesterday.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
index df52fb8b098..2c86df6b564 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
* Written by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>.
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c,v 1.432.2.5 2009/12/09 21:58:17 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c,v 1.432.2.6 2010/01/24 21:49:39 tgl Exp $
*
*--------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -3518,7 +3518,14 @@ AtEOXact_GUC(bool isCommit, int nestLevel)
bool still_dirty;
int i;
- Assert(nestLevel > 0 && nestLevel <= GUCNestLevel);
+ /*
+ * Note: it's possible to get here with GUCNestLevel == nestLevel-1 during
+ * abort, if there is a failure during transaction start before
+ * AtStart_GUC is called.
+ */
+ Assert(nestLevel > 0 &&
+ (nestLevel <= GUCNestLevel ||
+ (nestLevel == GUCNestLevel + 1 && !isCommit)));
/* Quick exit if nothing's changed in this transaction */
if (!guc_dirty)