When building aggregate expression steps, strict checks need a bailout
jump for when a null value is encountered, so there is a list of steps
that require later adjustment. Adding entries to that list for steps
that aren't actually strict would be harmless, except that there is an
Assert which catches them. This leads to spurious errors on asserts
builds, for data sets that trigger parallel aggregation of an
aggregate with a non-strict deserialization function (no such
aggregates exist in the core system).
Repair by not adding the adjustment entry when it's not needed.
Backpatch back to 11 where the code was introduced.
Per a report from Darafei (Komzpa) of the PostGIS project; analysis
and patch by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87mty7peb3.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
When reporting connection errors, we might show a database name in the
message that's not the one we actually tried to connect to, if the
database was taken from libpq defaults instead of from user parameters.
Fix such error messages to use PQdb(), which reports the correct name.
(But, per commit 2930c05634, make sure not to try to print NULL.)
Apply to branches 9.5 through 13. Branch master has already been
changed differently by commit 58cd8dca3d.
Reported-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobssJ6rS22dspWnu-oDxXevGmhMD8VcRBjmj-b9UDqRjw@mail.gmail.com
The loops to identify word boundaries could access past the end of
the input string. Likely that would never result in an actual
crash, but it makes valgrind unhappy.
The logic to try different numbers of words didn't work when the
input has two words but we only have a match to the first, eg
"\h with select". (We must "continue" the pass loop, not "break".)
The logic to compute nl_count was bizarrely managed, and in at
least two code paths could end up calling PageOutput with
nl_count = 0, resulting in failing to paginate output that should
have been fed to the pager. Also, in v12 and up, the nl_count
calculation hadn't been updated to account for the addition of a URL.
The PQExpBuffer holding the command syntax details wasn't freed,
resulting in a session-lifespan memory leak.
While here, improve some comments, choose a more descriptive name
for a variable, fix inconsistent datatype choice for another variable.
Per bug #16837 from Alexander Lakhin. This code is very old,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Kyotaro Horiguchi and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16837-479bcd56040c71b3@postgresql.org
Both heapgettup() and heapgettup_pagemode() incorrectly set the first page
to scan in a backward scan in which the number of pages to scan was
specified by heap_setscanlimits(). The code incorrectly started the scan
at the end of the relation when startBlk was 0, or otherwise at
startBlk - 1, neither of which is correct when only scanning a subset of
pages.
The fix here checks if heap_setscanlimits() has changed the number of
pages to scan and if so we set the first page to scan as the final page in
the specified range during backward scans.
Proper adjustment of this code was forgotten when heap_setscanlimits() was
added in 7516f5259 back in 9.5. However, practice, nowhere in core code
performs backward scans after having used heap_setscanlimits(), yet, it is
possible an extension uses the heap functions in this way, hence
backpatch.
An upcoming patch does use heap_setscanlimits() with backward scans, so
this must be fixed before that can go in.
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpGc9h0_oVD2CtgBcxCS1N-qDYZSeBRnUh+0CWJA9cMaA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5, all supported versions
DST law changes in Russia (Volgograd zone) and South Sudan.
Historical corrections for Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda,
Ghana, Israel, Kenya, Nigeria, Palestine, Seychelles, and Vanuatu.
Notably, the Australia/Currie zone has been corrected to the point
where it is identical to Australia/Hobart.
In light of recent discussions, we should instruct people to
install Apple's command line tools; installing Xcode is secondary.
Also, fix sample command for finding out the default sysroot,
as we now know that the command originally recommended can give
a result that doesn't match your OS version.
Also document the workaround to use if you really don't want
configure to select a sysroot at all.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210119111625.20435-1-james.hilliard1@gmail.com
This text claimed that the reconnection would occur "to the same
server", but there is no such guarantee in the code, nor would
insisting on that be an improvement.
Back-patch to v10 where multi-host connection strings were added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1095901.1611268376@sss.pgh.pa.us
It emerges that in some phases of the moon (perhaps to do with
directory entry order?), xcrun will report that the SDK path is
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk
which is normally a symlink to a version-numbered sibling directory.
Our heuristic to skip non-version-numbered pathnames was rejecting
that, which is the wrong thing to do. We'd still like to end up
with a version-numbered PG_SYSROOT value, but we can have that by
dereferencing the symlink.
Like the previous fix, back-patch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/522433.1611089678@sss.pgh.pa.us
By default VACUUM will skip pages that it can't immediately get
exclusive access to, which means that even activities as harmless
and unpredictable as checkpoint buffer writes might prevent a page
from being processed. Ordinarily this is no big deal, but we have
a small number of test cases that examine the results of VACUUM's
processing and therefore will fail if the page of interest is skipped.
This seems to be the explanation for some rare buildfarm failures.
To fix, add the DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING option to the VACUUM commands
in tests where this could be an issue.
In passing, remove a duplicated query in pageinspect/sql/page.sql.
Back-patch as necessary (some of these cases are as old as v10).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/413923.1611006484@sss.pgh.pa.us
Specifying duplicated objects in this command would lead to unique
constraint violations in pg_default_acl or "tuple already updated by
self" errors. Similarly to GRANT/REVOKE, increment the command ID after
each subcommand processing to allow this case to work transparently.
A regression test is added by tweaking one of the existing queries of
privileges.sql to stress this case.
Reported-by: Andrus
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ae2a7dc1-9d71-8cba-3bb9-e4cb7eb1f44e@hot.ee
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Somebody extended search_plan_tree() to treat MergeAppend exactly
like Append, which is 100% wrong, because unlike Append we can't
assume that only one input node is actively returning tuples.
Hence a cursor using a MergeAppend across a UNION ALL or inheritance
tree could falsely match a WHERE CURRENT OF query at a row that
isn't actually the cursor's current output row, but coincidentally
has the same TID (in a different table) as the current output row.
Delete the faulty code; this means that such a case will now return
an error like 'cursor "foo" is not a simply updatable scan of table
"bar"', instead of silently misbehaving. Users should not find that
surprising though, as the same cursor query could have failed that way
already depending on the chosen plan. (It would fail like that if the
sort were done with an explicit Sort node instead of MergeAppend.)
Expand the clearly-inadequate commentary to be more explicit about
what this code is doing, in hopes of forestalling future mistakes.
It's been like this for awhile, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/482865.1611075182@sss.pgh.pa.us
execCurrent.c's search_plan_tree() assumed that ForeignScanStates
and CustomScanStates necessarily have a valid ss_currentRelation.
This is demonstrably untrue for postgres_fdw's remote join and
remote aggregation plans, and non-leaf custom scans might not have
an identifiable scan relation either. Avoid crashing by ignoring
such nodes when the field is null.
This solution will lead to errors like 'cursor "foo" is not a
simply updatable scan of table "bar"' in cases where maybe we
could have allowed WHERE CURRENT OF to work. That's not an issue
for postgres_fdw's usages, since joins or aggregations would render
WHERE CURRENT OF invalid anyway. But an otherwise-transparent
upper level custom scan node might find this annoying. When and if
someone cares to expend work on such a scenario, we could invent a
custom-scan-provider callback to determine what's safe.
Report and patch by David Geier, commentary by me. It's been like
this for awhile, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0253344d-9bdd-11c4-7f0d-d88c02cd7991@swarm64.com
The context is an object that no longer bears some aclitem that it bore
initially. (A user issued REVOKE or GRANT statements upon the object.)
pg_dump is forming SQL to reproduce the object ACL. Since initdb
creates no ACL bearing GRANT OPTION, reaching this bug requires an
extension where the creation script establishes such an ACL. No PGXN
extension does that. If an installation did reach the bug, pg_dump
would have omitted a semicolon, causing a REVOKE and the next SQL
statement to fail. Separately, since the affected code exists to
eliminate an entire aclitem, it wants plain REVOKE, not REVOKE GRANT
OPTION FOR. Back-patch to 9.6, where commit
23f34fa4ba first appeared.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210109102423.GA160022@rfd.leadboat.com
Every core SLRU wraps around. With the exception of pg_notify, the wrap
point can fall in the middle of a page. Account for this in the
PagePrecedes callback specification and in SimpleLruTruncate()'s use of
said callback. Update each callback implementation to fit the new
specification. This changes SerialPagePrecedesLogically() from the
style of asyncQueuePagePrecedes() to the style of CLOGPagePrecedes().
(Whereas pg_clog and pg_serial share a key space, pg_serial is nothing
like pg_notify.) The bug fixed here has the same symptoms and user
followup steps as 592a589a04. Back-patch
to 9.5 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Andrey Borodin and (in earlier versions) by Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190202083822.GC32531@gust.leadboat.com
Add a check that CREATE STATISTICS does not add extended statistics on
system catalogs, similarly to indexes etc. It can be overriden using
the allow_system_table_mods GUC.
This bug exists since 7b504eb282, adding the extended statistics, so
backpatch all the way back to PostgreSQL 10.
Author: Tomas Vondra
Reported-by: Dean Rasheed
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCXAPrrOKwEsyZKQ4uzzJQWBCt6QAvOcgqRGdWwT1zb%2BrQ%40mail.gmail.com
In cases where Xcode is newer than the underlying macOS version,
asking xcodebuild for the SDK path will produce a pointer to the
SDK shipped with Xcode, which may end up building code that does
not work on the underlying macOS version. It appears that in
such cases, xcodebuild's answer also fails to match the default
behavior of Apple's compiler: assuming one has installed Xcode's
"command line tools", there will be an SDK for the OS's own version
in /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools, and the compiler will
default to using that. This is all pretty poorly documented,
but experimentation suggests that "xcrun --show-sdk-path" gives
the sysroot path that the compiler is actually using, at least
in some cases. Hence, try that first, but revert to xcodebuild
if xcrun fails (in very old Xcode, it is missing or lacks the
--show-sdk-path switch).
Also, "xcrun --show-sdk-path" may give a path that is valid but lacks
any OS version identifier. We don't really want that, since most
of the motivation for wiring -isysroot into the build flags at all
is to ensure that all parts of a PG installation are built against
the same SDK, even when considering extensions built later and/or on
a different machine. Insist on finding "N.N" in the directory name
before accepting the result. (Adding "--sdk macosx" to the xcrun
call seems to produce the same answer as xcodebuild, but usually
more quickly because it's cached, so we also try that as a fallback.)
The core reason why we don't want to use Xcode's default SDK in cases
like this is that Apple's technology for introducing new syscalls
does not play nice with Autoconf: for example, configure will think
that preadv/pwritev exist when using a Big Sur SDK, even when building
on an older macOS version where they don't exist. It'd be nice to
have a better solution to that problem, but this patch doesn't attempt
to fix that.
Per report from Sergey Shinderuk. Back-patch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ed3b8e5d-0da8-6ebd-fd1c-e0ac80a4b204@postgrespro.ru
This is the same fix as commit 9eabfe300 applied to INDEX ATTACH
entries, but for table-to-publication attachments. As in that
case, even though the backend doesn't record "ownership" of the
attachment, we still ought to label it in the dump archive with
the role name that should run the ALTER PUBLICATION command.
The existing behavior causes the ALTER to be done by the original
role that started the restore; that will usually work fine, but
there may be corner cases where it fails.
The bulk of the patch is concerned with changing struct
PublicationRelInfo to include a pointer to the associated
PublicationInfo object, so that we can get the owner's name
out of that when the time comes. While at it, I rewrote
getPublicationTables() to do just one query of pg_publication_rel,
not one per table.
Back-patch to v10 where this code was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1165710.1610473242@sss.pgh.pa.us
When a tablespace is used in a partitioned relation (per commits
ca4103025d in pg12 for tables and 33e6c34c32 in pg11 for indexes),
it is possible to drop the tablespace, potentially causing various
problems. One such was reported in bug #16577, where a rewriting ALTER
TABLE causes a server crash.
Protect against this by using pg_shdepend to keep track of tablespaces
when used for relations that don't keep physical files; we now abort a
tablespace if we see that the tablespace is referenced from any
partitioned relations.
Backpatch this to 11, where this problem has been latent all along. We
don't try to create pg_shdepend entries for existing partitioned
indexes/tables, but any ones that are modified going forward will be
protected.
Note slight behavior change: when trying to drop a tablespace that
contains both regular tables as well as partitioned ones, you'd
previously get ERRCODE_OBJECT_NOT_IN_PREREQUISITE_STATE and now you'll
get ERRCODE_DEPENDENT_OBJECTS_STILL_EXIST. Arguably, the latter is more
correct.
It is possible to add protecting pg_shdepend entries for existing
tables/indexes, by doing
ALTER TABLE ONLY some_partitioned_table SET TABLESPACE pg_default;
ALTER TABLE ONLY some_partitioned_table SET TABLESPACE original_tablespace;
for each partitioned table/index that is not in the database default
tablespace. Because these partitioned objects do not have storage, no
file needs to be actually moved, so it shouldn't take more time than
what's required to acquire locks.
This query can be used to search for such relations:
SELECT ... FROM pg_class WHERE relkind IN ('p', 'I') AND reltablespace <> 0
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16577-881633a9f9894fd5@postgresql.org
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
The point of this restriction is to avoid trying to substitute variables
into timestamp literal values, which may contain strings like '12:34'.
There is a good deal more that should be done to reduce pgbench's
tendency to substitute where it shouldn't. But this is sufficient to
solve the case complained of by Jaime Soler, and it's simple enough
to back-patch.
Back-patch to v11; before commit 9d36a3866, pgbench had a slightly
different definition of what a variable name is, and anyway it seems
unwise to change long-stable branches for this.
Fabien Coelho
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2006291740420.805678@pseudo
Although a partitioned index's attachment to its parent doesn't
have separate ownership, the ArchiveEntry for it needs to be
marked with an owner anyway, to ensure that the ALTER command
is run by the appropriate role when restoring with
--use-set-session-authorization. Without this, the ALTER will
be run by the role that started the restore session, which will
usually work but it's formally the wrong thing.
Back-patch to v11 where this type of ArchiveEntry was added.
In HEAD, add equivalent commentary to the just-added TABLE ATTACH
case, which I'd made do the right thing already.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1094034.1610418498@sss.pgh.pa.us
brenext(), when parsing a '*' quantifier, forgot to return any "value"
for the token; per the equivalent case in next(), it should return
value 1 to indicate that greedy rather than non-greedy behavior is
wanted. The result is that the compiled regexp could behave like 'x*?'
rather than the intended 'x*', if we were unlucky enough to have
a zero in v->nextvalue at this point. That seems to happen with some
reliability if we have '.*' at the beginning of a BRE-mode regexp,
although that depends on the initial contents of a stack-allocated
struct, so it's not guaranteed to fail.
Found by Alexander Lakhin using valgrind testing. This bug seems
to be aboriginal in Spencer's code, so back-patch all the way.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16814-6c5e3edd2bdf0d50@postgresql.org
We found last February that the error-case tests added by commit
008cf0409 failed on OpenBSD, because that platform doesn't really
check locale names. At the time it seemed that that was only an issue
for LC_CTYPE, but testing on a more recent version of OpenBSD shows
that it's now equally lax about LC_COLLATE.
Rather than dropping the LC_COLLATE test too, put back LC_CTYPE
(reverting c4b0edb07), and adjust these tests to accept the different
error message that we get if setlocale() doesn't reject a bogus locale
name. The point of these tests is not really what the backend does
with the locale name, but to show that createdb quotes funny locale
names safely; so we're not losing test reliability this way.
Back-patch as appropriate.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/231373.1610058324@sss.pgh.pa.us
On reflection, the order of operations in PostgresMain() is wrong.
These timeouts ought to be shut down before, not after, we do the
post-command-read CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS, to guarantee that any
timeout error will be detected there rather than at some ill-defined
later point (possibly after having wasted a lot of work).
This is really an error in the original idle_in_transaction_timeout
patch, so back-patch to 9.6 where that was introduced.
The documentation of pg_rewind mentioned the use of restore_command and
primary_conninfo as options available at startup to fetch missing WAL
segments that could be used to find the point of divergence for the
rewind. This is confusing because when finding the point of divergence
the target cluster is offline, so this option is not available.
Issue introduced by 878bd9a, so backpatch down to 9.6. The
documentation of 13 and HEAD was already right as this sentence has been
changed by a7e8ece when introducing -c/--restore-target-wal.
Reported-by: Amine Tengilimoglu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADTdw-w_0MP=iQrfizeU4QU5fcZb+w8P_oPeLL+WznWf0kbn3w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
The deadlocks that the recovery conflict on lock is involved in can
happen between hot-standby backends and the startup process.
If a backend takes an access exclusive lock on the table and which
finally triggers the deadlock, that deadlock can be detected
as expected. On the other hand, previously, if the startup process
took an access exclusive lock and which finally triggered the deadlock,
that deadlock could not be detected and could remain even after
deadlock_timeout passed. This is a bug.
The cause of this bug was that the code for handling the recovery
conflict on lock didn't take care of deadlock case at all. It assumed
that deadlocks involving the startup process and backends were able
to be detected by the deadlock detector invoked within backends.
But this assumption was incorrect. The startup process also should
have invoked the deadlock detector if necessary.
To fix this bug, this commit makes the startup process invoke
the deadlock detector if deadlock_timeout is reached while handling
the recovery conflict on lock. Specifically, in that case, the startup
process requests all the backends holding the conflicting locks to
check themselves for deadlocks.
Back-patch to v9.6. v9.5 has also this bug, but per discussion we decided
not to back-patch the fix to v9.5. Because v9.5 doesn't have some
infrastructure codes (e.g., 37c54863cf) that this bug fix patch depends on.
We can apply those codes for the back-patch, but since the next minor
version release is the final one for v9.5, it's risky to do that. If we
unexpectedly introduce new bug to v9.5 by the back-patch, there is no
chance to fix that. We determined that the back-patch to v9.5 would give
more risk than gain.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Masahiko Sawada, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4041d6b6-cf24-a120-36fa-1294220f8243@oss.nttdata.com
In power_var_int(), the computation of the number of significant
digits to use in the computation used log(Abs(exp)), which isn't safe
because Abs(exp) returns INT_MIN when exp is INT_MIN. Use fabs()
instead of Abs(), so that the exponent is cast to a double before the
absolute value is taken.
Back-patch to 9.6, where this was introduced (by 7d9a4737c2).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCVd6pMkz=BrZEgBKyqqJrt2xghr=fNc8+Z=5xC6cgWrWA@mail.gmail.com
If the substring start index and length overflow when added together,
substring() misbehaved, either throwing a bogus "negative substring
length" error on a case that should succeed, or failing to complain that
a negative length is negative (and instead returning the whole string,
in most cases). Unsurprisingly, the text, bytea, and bit variants of
the function all had this issue. Rearrange the logic to ensure that
negative lengths are always rejected, and add an overflow check to
handle the other case.
Also install similar guards into detoast_attr_slice() (nee
heap_tuple_untoast_attr_slice()), since it's far from clear that
no other code paths leading to that function could pass it values
that would overflow.
Patch by myself and Pavel Stehule, per bug #16804 from Rafi Shamim.
Back-patch to v11. While these bugs are old, the common/int.h
infrastructure for overflow-detecting arithmetic didn't exist before
commit 4d6ad3125, and it doesn't seem like these misbehaviors are bad
enough to justify developing a standalone fix for the older branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16804-f4eeeb6c11ba71d4@postgresql.org
The behavior of cross-type comparisons among date/time data types was
not really explained anywhere. You could probably infer it if you
recognized the applicability of comments elsewhere about datatype
conversions, but it seems worthy of explicit documentation.
Per bug #16797 from Dana Burd.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16797-f264b0b980b53b8b@postgresql.org
90fbf7c has taken care of that for HEAD. This includes the portion of
the fixes that applies to the documentation, where needed depending on
the branch.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201227202604.GC26311@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
There's a second call of get_eval_mcontext() that should also be
get_stmt_mcontext(). This is actually dead code, since no
interesting allocations happen before switching back to the
original context, but we should keep it in sync with the other
call to forestall possible future bugs.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f075f7be-c654-9aa8-3ffc-e9214622f02a@enterprisedb.com
Commit a6b1f5365 intended to place the transient "target" list of
a CALL statement in the function's statement-lifespan context,
but I fat-fingered that and used get_eval_mcontext() instead of
get_stmt_mcontext(). The eval_mcontext belongs to the "simple
expression" infrastructure, which is destroyed at transaction end.
The net effect is that a CALL in a procedure to another procedure
that has OUT or INOUT parameters would fail if the called procedure
did a COMMIT.
Per report from Peter Eisentraut. Back-patch to v11, like the
prior patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f075f7be-c654-9aa8-3ffc-e9214622f02a@enterprisedb.com
The code in charge of processing a single invalidation message has been
using since 568d413 the structure for relation mapping messages. This
had fortunately no consequence as both locate the database ID at the
same location, but it could become a problem in the future if this area
of the code changes.
Author: Konstantin Knizhnik
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8044c223-4d3a-2cdb-42bf-29940840ce94@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 9.5
In postgres_fdw, the cached connections to foreign servers will not be
closed until the local session exits if the user mappings or foreign servers
that those connections depend on are dropped. Those connections can be
leaked.
To fix that connection leak issue, after a change to a pg_foreign_server
or pg_user_mapping catalog entry, this commit makes postgres_fdw close
the connections depending on that entry immediately if current
transaction has not used those connections yet. Otherwise, mark those
connections as invalid and then close them at the end of current transaction,
since they cannot be closed in the midst of the transaction using them.
Closed connections will be remade at the next opportunity if necessary.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu, Zhijie Hou, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVNcGH_6qLY-4_tXz8JLvA+4yeBThRfxMz7Oxbk1aHcpQ@mail.gmail.com
This makes existing sessions reflect "ALTER ROLE ... [NO]INHERIT" as
quickly as they have been reflecting "GRANT role_name". Back-patch to
9.5 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Nathan Bossart.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201221095028.GB3777719@rfd.leadboat.com
If a database shutdown (smart or fast) is commanded between the time
some process decides to request a new background worker and the time
that the postmaster can launch that worker, then nothing happens
because the postmaster won't launch any bgworkers once it's exited
PM_RUN state. This is fine ... unless the requesting process is
waiting for that worker to finish (or even for it to start); in that
case the requestor is stuck, and only manual intervention will get us
to the point of being able to shut down.
To fix, cancel pending requests for workers when the postmaster sends
shutdown (SIGTERM) signals, and similarly cancel any new requests that
arrive after that point. (We can optimize things slightly by only
doing the cancellation for workers that have waiters.) To fit within
the existing bgworker APIs, the "cancel" is made to look like the
worker was started and immediately stopped, causing deregistration of
the bgworker entry. Waiting processes would have to deal with
premature worker exit anyway, so this should introduce no bugs that
weren't there before. We do have a side effect that registration
records for restartable bgworkers might disappear when theoretically
they should have remained in place; but since we're shutting down,
that shouldn't matter.
Back-patch to v10. There might be value in putting this into 9.6
as well, but the management of bgworkers is a bit different there
(notably see 8ff518699) and I'm not convinced it's worth the effort
to validate the patch for that branch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/661570.1608673226@sss.pgh.pa.us
Andrew Gierth
Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane
David Rowley
Michael Paquier
Bruce Momjian
Noah Misch
Tomas Vondra
Fujii Masao
Amit Kapila
Dean Rasheed