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Fix multiple problems in WAL replay.

Most of the replay functions for WAL record types that modify more than
one page failed to ensure that those pages were locked correctly to ensure
that concurrent queries could not see inconsistent page states.  This is
a hangover from coding decisions made long before Hot Standby was added,
when it was hardly necessary to acquire buffer locks during WAL replay
at all, let alone hold them for carefully-chosen periods.

The key problem was that RestoreBkpBlocks was written to hold lock on each
page restored from a full-page image for only as long as it took to update
that page.  This was guaranteed to break any WAL replay function in which
there was any update-ordering constraint between pages, because even if the
nominal order of the pages is the right one, any mixture of full-page and
non-full-page updates in the same record would result in out-of-order
updates.  Moreover, it wouldn't work for situations where there's a
requirement to maintain lock on one page while updating another.  Failure
to honor an update ordering constraint in this way is thought to be the
cause of bug #7648 from Daniel Farina: what seems to have happened there
is that a btree page being split was rewritten from a full-page image
before the new right sibling page was written, and because lock on the
original page was not maintained it was possible for hot standby queries to
try to traverse the page's right-link to the not-yet-existing sibling page.

To fix, get rid of RestoreBkpBlocks as such, and instead create a new
function RestoreBackupBlock that restores just one full-page image at a
time.  This function can be invoked by WAL replay functions at the points
where they would otherwise perform non-full-page updates; in this way, the
physical order of page updates remains the same no matter which pages are
replaced by full-page images.  We can then further adjust the logic in
individual replay functions if it is necessary to hold buffer locks
for overlapping periods.  A side benefit is that we can simplify the
handling of concurrency conflict resolution by moving that code into the
record-type-specfic functions; there's no more need to contort the code
layout to keep conflict resolution in front of the RestoreBkpBlocks call.

In connection with that, standardize on zero-based numbering rather than
one-based numbering for referencing the full-page images.  In HEAD, I
removed the macros XLR_BKP_BLOCK_1 through XLR_BKP_BLOCK_4.  They are
still there in the header files in previous branches, but are no longer
used by the code.

In addition, fix some other bugs identified in the course of making these
changes:

spgRedoAddNode could fail to update the parent downlink at all, if the
parent tuple is in the same page as either the old or new split tuple and
we're not doing a full-page image: it would get fooled by the LSN having
been advanced already.  This would result in permanent index corruption,
not just transient failure of concurrent queries.

Also, ginHeapTupleFastInsert's "merge lists" case failed to mark the old
tail page as a candidate for a full-page image; in the worst case this
could result in torn-page corruption.

heap_xlog_freeze() was inconsistent about using a cleanup lock or plain
exclusive lock: it did the former in the normal path but the latter for a
full-page image.  A plain exclusive lock seems sufficient, so change to
that.

Also, remove gistRedoPageDeleteRecord(), which has been dead code since
VACUUM FULL was rewritten.

Back-patch to 9.0, where hot standby was introduced.  Note however that 9.0
had a significantly different WAL-logging scheme for GIST index updates,
and it doesn't appear possible to make that scheme safe for concurrent hot
standby queries, because it can leave inconsistent states in the index even
between WAL records.  Given the lack of complaints from the field, we won't
work too hard on fixing that branch.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane
2012-11-12 22:05:08 -05:00
parent 9b3ac49e5a
commit 3bbf668de9
10 changed files with 761 additions and 472 deletions

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@ -71,11 +71,7 @@ typedef struct XLogRecord
*/
#define XLR_BKP_BLOCK_MASK 0x0F /* all info bits used for bkp blocks */
#define XLR_MAX_BKP_BLOCKS 4
#define XLR_SET_BKP_BLOCK(iblk) (0x08 >> (iblk))
#define XLR_BKP_BLOCK_1 XLR_SET_BKP_BLOCK(0) /* 0x08 */
#define XLR_BKP_BLOCK_2 XLR_SET_BKP_BLOCK(1) /* 0x04 */
#define XLR_BKP_BLOCK_3 XLR_SET_BKP_BLOCK(2) /* 0x02 */
#define XLR_BKP_BLOCK_4 XLR_SET_BKP_BLOCK(3) /* 0x01 */
#define XLR_BKP_BLOCK(iblk) (0x08 >> (iblk)) /* iblk in 0..3 */
/* Sync methods */
#define SYNC_METHOD_FSYNC 0
@ -94,13 +90,13 @@ extern int sync_method;
* If buffer is valid then XLOG will check if buffer must be backed up
* (ie, whether this is first change of that page since last checkpoint).
* If so, the whole page contents are attached to the XLOG record, and XLOG
* sets XLR_BKP_BLOCK_X bit in xl_info. Note that the buffer must be pinned
* sets XLR_BKP_BLOCK(N) bit in xl_info. Note that the buffer must be pinned
* and exclusive-locked by the caller, so that it won't change under us.
* NB: when the buffer is backed up, we DO NOT insert the data pointed to by
* this XLogRecData struct into the XLOG record, since we assume it's present
* in the buffer. Therefore, rmgr redo routines MUST pay attention to
* XLR_BKP_BLOCK_X to know what is actually stored in the XLOG record.
* The i'th XLR_BKP_BLOCK bit corresponds to the i'th distinct buffer
* XLR_BKP_BLOCK(N) to know what is actually stored in the XLOG record.
* The N'th XLR_BKP_BLOCK bit corresponds to the N'th distinct buffer
* value (ignoring InvalidBuffer) appearing in the rdata chain.
*
* When buffer is valid, caller must set buffer_std to indicate whether the
@ -274,7 +270,9 @@ extern int XLogFileOpen(XLogSegNo segno);
extern void XLogGetLastRemoved(XLogSegNo *segno);
extern void XLogSetAsyncXactLSN(XLogRecPtr record);
extern void RestoreBkpBlocks(XLogRecPtr lsn, XLogRecord *record, bool cleanup);
extern Buffer RestoreBackupBlock(XLogRecPtr lsn, XLogRecord *record,
int block_index,
bool get_cleanup_lock, bool keep_buffer);
extern void xlog_redo(XLogRecPtr lsn, XLogRecord *record);
extern void xlog_desc(StringInfo buf, uint8 xl_info, char *rec);