postgresql/src/backend/storage/ipc
Robert Haas 4240e429d0 Try to acquire relation locks in RangeVarGetRelid.
In the previous coding, we would look up a relation in RangeVarGetRelid,
lock the resulting OID, and then AcceptInvalidationMessages().  While
this was sufficient to ensure that we noticed any changes to the
relation definition before building the relcache entry, it didn't
handle the possibility that the name we looked up no longer referenced
the same OID.  This was particularly problematic in the case where a
table had been dropped and recreated: we'd latch on to the entry for
the old relation and fail later on.  Now, we acquire the relation lock
inside RangeVarGetRelid, and retry the name lookup if we notice that
invalidation messages have been processed meanwhile.  Many operations
that would previously have failed with an error in the presence of
concurrent DDL will now succeed.

There is a good deal of work remaining to be done here: many callers
of RangeVarGetRelid still pass NoLock for one reason or another.  In
addition, nothing in this patch guards against the possibility that
the meaning of an unqualified name might change due to the creation
of a relation in a schema earlier in the user's search path than the
one where it was previously found.  Furthermore, there's nothing at
all here to guard against similar race conditions for non-relations.
For all that, it's a start.

Noah Misch and Robert Haas
2011-07-08 22:19:30 -04:00
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ipc.c Stamp copyrights for year 2011. 2011-01-01 13:18:15 -05:00
ipci.c Implement genuine serializable isolation level. 2011-02-08 00:09:08 +02:00
Makefile Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
pmsignal.c Introduce a pipe between postmaster and each backend, which can be used to 2011-07-08 18:44:07 +03:00
procarray.c pgindent run before PG 9.1 beta 1. 2011-04-10 11:42:00 -04:00
procsignal.c Stamp copyrights for year 2011. 2011-01-01 13:18:15 -05:00
README Remove useless whitespace at end of lines 2010-11-23 22:34:55 +02:00
shmem.c Implement genuine serializable isolation level. 2011-02-08 00:09:08 +02:00
shmqueue.c Minor sync rep corrections. 2011-03-10 14:57:02 -05:00
sinval.c Try to acquire relation locks in RangeVarGetRelid. 2011-07-08 22:19:30 -04:00
sinvaladt.c Capitalization fixes 2011-06-19 00:37:30 +03:00
standby.c Clean up most -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings from gcc 4.6 2011-04-11 22:28:45 +03:00

src/backend/storage/ipc/README

Cache Invalidation Synchronization Routines
===========================================

Mon Jul 18 11:09:22 PDT 1988  W.KLAS

The cache synchronization is done using a message queue. Every
backend can register a message which then has to be read by
all backends. A message read by all backends is removed from the
queue automatically. If a message has been lost because the buffer
was full, all backends that haven't read this message will be
told that they have to reset their cache state. This is done
at the time when they try to read the message queue.

The message queue is implemented as a shared buffer segment. Actually,
the queue is a circle to allow fast inserting, reading (invalidate data) and
maintaining the buffer.