postgresql/contrib
Alvaro Herrera d372cb173e Fix handling of multixacts predating pg_upgrade
After pg_upgrade, it is possible that some tuples' Xmax have multixacts
corresponding to the old installation; such multixacts cannot have
running members anymore.  In many code sites we already know not to read
them and clobber them silently, but at least when VACUUM tries to freeze
a multixact or determine whether one needs freezing, there's an attempt
to resolve it to its member transactions by calling GetMultiXactIdMembers,
and if the multixact value is "in the future" with regards to the
current valid multixact range, an error like this is raised:
    ERROR:  MultiXactId 123 has not been created yet -- apparent wraparound
and vacuuming fails.  Per discussion with Andrew Gierth, it is completely
bogus to try to resolve multixacts coming from before a pg_upgrade,
regardless of where they stand with regards to the current valid
multixact range.

It's possible to get from under this problem by doing SELECT FOR UPDATE
of the problem tuples, but if tables are large, this is slow and
tedious, so a more thorough solution is desirable.

To fix, we realize that multixacts in xmax created in 9.2 and previous
have a specific bit pattern that is never used in 9.3 and later (we
already knew this, per comments and infomask tests sprinkled in various
places, but we weren't leveraging this knowledge appropriately).
Whenever the infomask of the tuple matches that bit pattern, we just
ignore the multixact completely as if Xmax wasn't set; or, in the case
of tuple freezing, we act as if an unwanted value is set and clobber it
without decoding.  This guarantees that no errors will be raised, and
that the values will be progressively removed until all tables are
clean.  Most callers of GetMultiXactIdMembers are patched to recognize
directly that the value is a removable "empty" multixact and avoid
calling GetMultiXactIdMembers altogether.

To avoid changing the signature of GetMultiXactIdMembers() in back
branches, we keep the "allow_old" boolean flag but rename it to
"from_pgupgrade"; if the flag is true, we always return an empty set
instead of looking up the multixact.  (I suppose we could remove the
argument in the master branch, but I chose not to do so in this commit).

This was broken all along, but the error-facing message appeared first
because of commit 8e9a16ab8f and was partially fixed in a25c2b7c4d.
This fix, backpatched all the way back to 9.3, goes approximately in the
same direction as a25c2b7c4d but should cover all cases.

Bug analysis by Andrew Gierth and Álvaro Herrera.

A number of public reports match this bug:
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140330040029.GY4582@tamriel.snowman.net
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/538F3D70.6080902@publicrelay.com
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/556439CF.7070109@pscs.co.uk
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/SG2PR06MB0760098A111C88E31BD4D96FB3540@SG2PR06MB0760.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160615203829.5798.4594@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2016-06-24 18:29:28 -04:00
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adminpack
auth_delay
auto_explain
btree_gin pgindent run for 9.5 2015-05-23 21:35:49 -04:00
btree_gist Properly initialize SortSupport for ORDER BY rechecks in nodeIndexscan.c. 2016-06-05 11:53:06 -04:00
chkpass
citext Fix incorrect declaration of citext's regexp_matches() functions. 2015-05-05 15:51:22 -04:00
cube Fix misc typos. 2015-09-05 11:36:18 +03:00
dblink
dict_int
dict_xsyn
earthdistance
file_fdw Allow foreign and custom joins to handle EvalPlanQual rechecks. 2015-12-08 12:54:33 -05:00
fuzzystrmatch Remove new coupling between NAMEDATALEN and MAX_LEVENSHTEIN_STRLEN. 2016-01-22 11:53:06 -05:00
hstore Fix IsValidJsonNumber() to notice trailing non-alphanumeric garbage. 2016-02-03 01:39:08 -05:00
hstore_plperl Use LOAD not actual code execution to pull in plpython library. 2016-01-11 20:06:47 -05:00
hstore_plpython Use LOAD not actual code execution to pull in plpython library. 2016-01-11 20:06:47 -05:00
intagg
intarray Prevent stack overflow in query-type functions. 2015-10-05 10:06:33 -04:00
isn contrib/isn now needs a .gitignore file. 2015-08-02 23:57:42 -04:00
lo
ltree ltree: Zero padding bytes when allocating memory for externally visible data. 2016-03-08 14:59:29 -08:00
ltree_plpython Use LOAD not actual code execution to pull in plpython library. 2016-01-11 20:06:47 -05:00
oid2name
pageinspect Remove unused macros. 2016-05-02 10:08:58 +03:00
passwordcheck
pg_buffercache pgindent run for 9.5 2015-05-23 21:35:49 -04:00
pg_freespacemap
pg_prewarm
pg_standby Make use of xlog_internal.h's macros in WAL-related utilities. 2015-07-02 10:36:18 +09:00
pg_stat_statements Avoid unlikely data-loss scenarios due to rename() without fsync. 2016-03-09 18:53:53 -08:00
pg_trgm Move strategy numbers to include/access/stratnum.h 2015-05-15 17:03:16 -03:00
pgcrypto Add forgotten CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPT calls in pgcrypto's crypt() 2015-12-27 13:03:19 -03:00
pgrowlocks Fix handling of multixacts predating pg_upgrade 2016-06-24 18:29:28 -04:00
pgstattuple Remove unused macros. 2016-05-02 10:08:58 +03:00
postgres_fdw postgres_fdw: Avoid possible misbehavior when RETURNING tableoid column only. 2016-02-04 22:27:38 -05:00
seg Revert "Convert contrib/seg's bool-returning SQL functions to V1 call convention." 2016-04-28 11:48:10 -04:00
sepgsql Fix sepgsql regression tests. 2015-08-30 11:09:19 -07:00
spi Collection of typo fixes. 2015-05-20 16:56:22 +03:00
sslinfo Fix error message wording in previous sslinfo commit 2015-09-08 11:10:20 -03:00
start-scripts Fix typo in linux startup script. 2015-04-26 09:43:15 -04:00
tablefunc Fix a number of places that produced XX000 errors in the regression tests. 2015-08-02 23:49:19 -04:00
tcn
test_decoding Fix core dump in ReorderBufferRestoreChange on alignment-picky platforms. 2016-04-14 19:42:22 -04:00
tsearch2
tsm_system_rows Redesign tablesample method API, and do extensive code review. 2015-07-25 14:39:00 -04:00
tsm_system_time Some platforms now need contrib/tsm_system_time to be linked with libm. 2015-07-25 16:37:22 -04:00
unaccent
uuid-ossp
vacuumlo
xml2
contrib-global.mk
Makefile Finish removing pg_audit 2015-05-28 12:48:25 -04:00
README

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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