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authorHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>2014-11-13 19:47:44 +0200
committerHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>2014-11-13 20:01:18 +0200
commit7eab804c22d40e1c0936c88334a8861d43d8e863 (patch)
tree1038b265347fb54ebef81948617399cf1561cd44 /src/tutorial/syscat.source
parentd47fff3d72cd703b80760d513cced81afae5dcc4 (diff)
Fix race condition between hot standby and restoring a full-page image.
There was a window in RestoreBackupBlock where a page would be zeroed out, but not yet locked. If a backend pinned and locked the page in that window, it saw the zeroed page instead of the old page or new page contents, which could lead to missing rows in a result set, or errors. To fix, replace RBM_ZERO with RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK, which atomically pins, zeroes, and locks the page, if it's not in the buffer cache already. In stable branches, the old RBM_ZERO constant is renamed to RBM_DO_NOT_USE, to avoid breaking any 3rd party extensions that might use RBM_ZERO. More importantly, this avoids renumbering the other enum values, which would cause even bigger confusion in extensions that use ReadBufferExtended, but haven't been recompiled. Backpatch to all supported versions; this has been racy since hot standby was introduced.
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