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-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/heap/tuptoaster.c6
-rw-r--r--src/backend/catalog/catalog.c15
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/heap/tuptoaster.c b/src/backend/access/heap/tuptoaster.c
index 83834e0c2f5..5fa9018c7dc 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/heap/tuptoaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/heap/tuptoaster.c
@@ -1650,7 +1650,9 @@ toast_delete_datum(Relation rel, Datum value)
/* ----------
* toastrel_valueid_exists -
*
- * Test whether a toast value with the given ID exists in the toast relation
+ * Test whether a toast value with the given ID exists in the toast relation.
+ * For safety, we consider a value to exist if there are either live or dead
+ * toast rows with that ID; see notes for GetNewOid().
* ----------
*/
static bool
@@ -1682,7 +1684,7 @@ toastrel_valueid_exists(Relation toastrel, Oid valueid)
*/
toastscan = systable_beginscan(toastrel,
RelationGetRelid(toastidxs[validIndex]),
- true, SnapshotToast, 1, &toastkey);
+ true, SnapshotAny, 1, &toastkey);
if (systable_getnext(toastscan) != NULL)
result = true;
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/catalog.c b/src/backend/catalog/catalog.c
index 2eb2c2fddf6..81a377179a4 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/catalog.c
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/catalog.c
@@ -270,8 +270,12 @@ IsSharedRelation(Oid relationId)
* managed to cycle through 2^32 OIDs and generate the same OID before we
* finish inserting our row. This seems unlikely to be a problem. Note
* that if we had to *commit* the row to end the race condition, the risk
- * would be rather higher; therefore we use SnapshotDirty in the test,
- * so that we will see uncommitted rows.
+ * would be rather higher; therefore we use SnapshotAny in the test, so that
+ * we will see uncommitted rows. (We used to use SnapshotDirty, but that has
+ * the disadvantage that it ignores recently-deleted rows, creating a risk
+ * of transient conflicts for as long as our own MVCC snapshots think a
+ * recently-deleted row is live. The risk is far higher when selecting TOAST
+ * OIDs, because SnapshotToast considers dead rows as active indefinitely.)
*/
Oid
GetNewOid(Relation relation)
@@ -324,13 +328,10 @@ Oid
GetNewOidWithIndex(Relation relation, Oid indexId, AttrNumber oidcolumn)
{
Oid newOid;
- SnapshotData SnapshotDirty;
SysScanDesc scan;
ScanKeyData key;
bool collides;
- InitDirtySnapshot(SnapshotDirty);
-
/* Generate new OIDs until we find one not in the table */
do
{
@@ -343,9 +344,9 @@ GetNewOidWithIndex(Relation relation, Oid indexId, AttrNumber oidcolumn)
BTEqualStrategyNumber, F_OIDEQ,
ObjectIdGetDatum(newOid));
- /* see notes above about using SnapshotDirty */
+ /* see notes above about using SnapshotAny */
scan = systable_beginscan(relation, indexId, true,
- &SnapshotDirty, 1, &key);
+ SnapshotAny, 1, &key);
collides = HeapTupleIsValid(systable_getnext(scan));