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authorAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>2020-03-28 11:52:11 -0700
committerAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>2020-03-28 12:04:59 -0700
commit211d8f65392f7add35bcd02f49648e514d9558fc (patch)
treed710df2aff1449c686ab2a5d7204f70bc0e2d9c1 /src
parentdd51b5696aa55a5bf46656bf2d89cbf101d598d3 (diff)
Ensure snapshot is registered within ScanPgRelation().
In 9.4 I added support to use a historical snapshot in ScanPgRelation(), while adding logical decoding. Unfortunately a conflict with the concurrent removal of SnapshotNow was incorrectly resolved, leading to an unregistered snapshot being used. It is not correct to use an unregistered (or non-active) snapshot for anything non-trivial, because catalog invalidations can cause the snapshot to be invalidated. Luckily it seems unlikely to actively cause problems in practice, as ScanPgRelation() requires that we already have a lock on the relation, we only look for a single row, and we don't appear to rely on the result's tid to be correct. It however is clearly wrong and potential negative consequences would likely be hard to find. So it seems worth backpatching the fix, even without a concrete hazard. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200229052459.wzhqnbhrriezg4v2@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.5-
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c b/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
index 07e0ab136ad..a69a2665a05 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ ScanPgRelation(Oid targetRelId, bool indexOK, bool force_non_historic)
Relation pg_class_desc;
SysScanDesc pg_class_scan;
ScanKeyData key[1];
- Snapshot snapshot;
+ Snapshot snapshot = NULL;
/*
* If something goes wrong during backend startup, we might find ourselves
@@ -332,12 +332,12 @@ ScanPgRelation(Oid targetRelId, bool indexOK, bool force_non_historic)
/*
* The caller might need a tuple that's newer than the one the historic
* snapshot; currently the only case requiring to do so is looking up the
- * relfilenode of non mapped system relations during decoding.
+ * relfilenode of non mapped system relations during decoding. That
+ * snapshot cant't change in the midst of a relcache build, so there's no
+ * need to register the snapshot.
*/
if (force_non_historic)
snapshot = GetNonHistoricCatalogSnapshot(RelationRelationId);
- else
- snapshot = GetCatalogSnapshot(RelationRelationId);
pg_class_scan = systable_beginscan(pg_class_desc, ClassOidIndexId,
indexOK && criticalRelcachesBuilt,