postgresql/contrib
Alvaro Herrera da10d6a8a9 Fix "base" snapshot handling in logical decoding
Two closely related bugs are fixed.  First, xmin of logical slots was
advanced too early.  During xl_running_xacts processing, xmin of the
slot was set to the oldest running xid in the record, but that's wrong:
actually, snapshots which will be used for not-yet-replayed transactions
might consider older txns as running too, so we need to keep xmin back
for them.  The problem wasn't noticed earlier because DDL which allows
to delete tuple (set xmax) while some another not-yet-committed
transaction looks at it is pretty rare, if not unique: e.g. all forms of
ALTER TABLE which change schema acquire ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock
conflicting with any inserts. The included test case (test_decoding's
oldest_xmin) uses ALTER of a composite type, which doesn't have such
interlocking.

To deal with this, we must be able to quickly retrieve oldest xmin
(oldest running xid among all assigned snapshots) from ReorderBuffer. To
fix, add another list of ReorderBufferTXNs to the reorderbuffer, where
transactions are sorted by base-snapshot-LSN.  This is slightly
different from the existing (sorted by first-LSN) list, because a
transaction can have an earlier LSN but a later Xmin, if its first
record does not obtain an xmin (eg. xl_xact_assignment).  Note this new
list doesn't fully replace the existing txn list: we still need that one
to prevent WAL recycling.

The second issue concerns SnapBuilder snapshots and subtransactions.
SnapBuildDistributeNewCatalogSnapshot never assigned a snapshot to a
transaction that is known to be a subtxn, which is good in the common
case that the top-level transaction already has one (no point in doing
so), but a bug otherwise.  To fix, arrange to transfer the snapshot from
the subtxn to its top-level txn as soon as the kinship gets known.
test_decoding's snapshot_transfer verifies this.

Also, fix a minor memory leak: refcount of toplevel's old base snapshot
was not decremented when the snapshot is transferred from child.

Liberally sprinkle code comments, and rewrite a few existing ones.  This
part is my (Álvaro's) contribution to this commit, as I had to write all
those comments in order to understand the existing code and Arseny's
patch.

Reported-by: Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru>
Diagnosed-by: Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87lgdyz1wj.fsf@ars-thinkpad
2018-06-26 16:38:34 -04:00
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adminpack adminpack: Revoke EXECUTE on pg_logfile_rotate() 2018-05-07 10:10:45 -04:00
auth_delay Update copyright for 2016 2016-01-02 14:19:48 -05:00
auto_explain Allow auto_explain.log_min_duration to go up to INT_MAX. 2018-02-23 14:39:20 -05:00
bloom Fix errors in contrib/bloom index build. 2018-03-22 13:13:58 -04:00
btree_gin Make contrib regression tests safe for Danish locale. 2016-07-21 16:52:35 -04:00
btree_gist Fix assorted issues in convert_to_scalar(). 2018-03-03 20:31:35 -05:00
chkpass Avoid returning undefined bytes in chkpass_in(). 2015-02-14 12:20:56 -05:00
citext Repair damage done by citext--1.1--1.2.sql. 2016-07-26 15:32:57 -04:00
cube Remove wrongly backpatched piece of code in cube.c 2018-04-10 14:59:27 +03:00
dblink Fix ancient connection leak in dblink 2017-03-11 13:32:26 -08:00
dict_int Update copyright for 2016 2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
dict_xsyn Update copyright for 2016 2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
earthdistance Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:15 +02:00
file_fdw Add macros to make AllocSetContextCreate() calls simpler and safer. 2016-08-27 17:50:38 -04:00
fuzzystrmatch Update fuzzystrmatch extension for parallel query. 2016-06-07 11:26:41 -04:00
hstore Avoid formally-undefined use of memcpy() in hstoreUniquePairs(). 2017-11-25 14:42:32 -05:00
hstore_plperl Fix contrib/hstore_plperl to look through scalar refs. 2018-06-18 15:55:06 -04:00
hstore_plpython Minor fixes in contrib installation scripts. 2016-06-14 10:47:06 -04:00
intagg Schema-qualify some references to regprocedure. 2016-06-10 10:41:58 -04:00
intarray Fix -e option in contrib/intarray/bench/bench.pl. 2016-08-17 15:51:10 -04:00
isn Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:15 +02:00
lo Update lo extension for parallel query. 2016-06-07 11:26:42 -04:00
ltree Spelling fixes 2017-03-14 13:45:54 -04:00
ltree_plpython Minor fixes in contrib installation scripts. 2016-06-14 10:47:06 -04:00
oid2name Empty search_path in Autovacuum and non-psql/pgbench clients. 2018-02-26 07:39:48 -08:00
pageinspect Fix incorrect computations of length of null bitmap in pageinspect. 2018-01-04 14:59:00 -05:00
passwordcheck Update copyright for 2016 2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
pg_buffercache pg_buffercache: Allow huge allocations. 2016-09-15 09:30:37 -04:00
pg_freespacemap Update pg_freespacemap extension for parallel query. 2016-06-09 17:18:16 -04:00
pg_prewarm Update pg_prewarm extension for parallel query. 2016-06-09 17:18:18 -04:00
pg_standby Fix new warnings from GCC 7 2017-05-16 08:52:39 -04:00
pg_stat_statements Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:15 +02:00
pg_trgm Rework word_similarity documentation, make it close to actual algorithm. 2018-03-21 14:37:51 +03:00
pg_visibility Fix bugs in contrib/pg_visibility. 2016-10-01 16:32:55 -04:00
pgcrypto Rename base64 routines to avoid conflict with Solaris built-in functions. 2018-02-28 18:33:45 -05:00
pgrowlocks Fix handling of multixacts predating pg_upgrade 2016-06-24 18:29:28 -04:00
pgstattuple Minor fixes in contrib installation scripts. 2016-06-14 10:47:06 -04:00
postgres_fdw Fix broken extract_actual_join_clauses call in 9.6 postgres_fdw. 2018-04-19 18:29:39 -04:00
seg Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:15 +02:00
sepgsql Silence compiler warning in sepgsql 2017-04-06 14:24:41 -07:00
spi Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:15 +02:00
sslinfo Support OpenSSL 1.1.0. 2016-09-15 12:55:38 +03:00
start-scripts Provide modern examples of how to auto-start Postgres on macOS. 2017-11-17 12:47:21 -05:00
tablefunc Widen query numbers-of-tuples-processed counters to uint64. 2016-03-12 16:05:29 -05:00
tcn Revert CREATE INDEX ... INCLUDING ... 2016-04-08 21:52:13 +03:00
test_decoding Fix "base" snapshot handling in logical decoding 2018-06-26 16:38:34 -04:00
tsearch2 Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:15 +02:00
tsm_system_rows Update copyright for 2016 2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
tsm_system_time Update copyright for 2016 2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
unaccent Update unaccent extension for parallel query. 2016-06-14 14:55:49 -04:00
uuid-ossp Give a useful error message if uuid-ossp is built without preconfiguration. 2016-12-22 11:19:13 -05:00
vacuumlo Empty search_path in Autovacuum and non-psql/pgbench clients. 2018-02-26 07:39:48 -08:00
xml2 Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:15 +02:00
contrib-global.mk Respect TEMP_CONFIG when pg_regress_check and friends are called 2016-02-27 12:28:21 -05:00
Makefile Bloom index contrib module 2016-04-01 16:42:24 +03:00
README

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