Prevent pgstats from getting confused when relkind of a relation changes

When the relkind of a relache entry changes, because a table is converted into
a view, pgstats can get confused in 15+, leading to crashes or assertion
failures.

For HEAD, Tom fixed this in b23cd185fd, by removing support for converting a
table to a view, removing the source of the inconsistency. This commit just
adds an assertion that a relcache entry's relkind does not change, just in
case we end up with another case of that in the future. As there's no cases of
changing relkind anymore, we can't add a test that that's handled correctly.

For 15, fix the problem by not maintaining the association with the old pgstat
entry when the relkind changes during a relcache invalidation processing. In
that case the pgstat entry needs to be unlinked first, to avoid
PgStat_TableStatus->relation getting out of sync. Also add a test reproducing
the issues.

No known problem exists in 11-14, so just add the test there.

Reported-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm2yXz+zOtv7y5zBd5WKT8O0Ld3YxikuU3dcyCvxF7gypA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm3oZA-8Wbps2Jd1g5_Gjrr-x3YWrJPek-mF5Asrrvz2Dg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 15-
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Andres Freund 2022-12-02 18:09:55 -08:00
parent 7ac0f8d384
commit cb2e7ddfe5
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@ -2661,6 +2661,13 @@ RelationClearRelation(Relation relation, bool rebuild)
elog(ERROR, "relation %u deleted while still in use", save_relid);
}
/*
* If we were to, again, have cases of the relkind of a relcache entry
* changing, we would need to ensure that pgstats does not get
* confused.
*/
Assert(relation->rd_rel->relkind == newrel->rd_rel->relkind);
keep_tupdesc = equalTupleDescs(relation->rd_att, newrel->rd_att);
keep_rules = equalRuleLocks(relation->rd_rules, newrel->rd_rules);
keep_policies = equalRSDesc(relation->rd_rsdesc, newrel->rd_rsdesc);