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Fix race condition in reading commit timestamps

If a user requests the commit timestamp for a transaction old enough
that its data is concurrently being truncated away by vacuum at just the
right time, they would receive an ugly internal file-not-found error
message from slru.c rather than the expected NULL return value.

In a primary server, the window for the race is very small: the lookup
has to occur exactly between the two calls by vacuum, and there's not a
lot that happens between them (mostly just a multixact truncate).  In a
standby server, however, the window is larger because the truncation is
executed as soon as the WAL record for it is replayed, but the advance
of the oldest-Xid is not executed until the next checkpoint record.

To fix in the primary, simply reverse the order of operations in
vac_truncate_clog.  To fix in the standby, augment the WAL truncation
record so that the standby is aware of the new oldest-XID value and can
apply the update immediately.  WAL version bumped because of this.

No backpatch, because of the low importance of the bug and its rarity.

Author: Craig Ringer
Reviewed-By: Petr Jelínek, Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMsr+YFhVtRQT1VAwC+WGbbxZZRzNou=N9Ed-FrCqkwQ8H8oJQ@mail.gmail.com
This commit is contained in:
Alvaro Herrera
2017-01-19 18:23:09 -03:00
parent 8b0fec93ec
commit 8eace46d34
5 changed files with 34 additions and 13 deletions

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@@ -1152,6 +1152,15 @@ vac_truncate_clog(TransactionId frozenXID,
if (bogus)
return;
/*
* Advance the oldest value for commit timestamps before truncating, so
* that if a user requests a timestamp for a transaction we're truncating
* away right after this point, they get NULL instead of an ugly "file not
* found" error from slru.c. This doesn't matter for xact/multixact
* because they are not subject to arbitrary lookups from users.
*/
AdvanceOldestCommitTsXid(frozenXID);
/*
* Truncate CLOG, multixact and CommitTs to the oldest computed value.
*/
@@ -1167,7 +1176,6 @@ vac_truncate_clog(TransactionId frozenXID,
*/
SetTransactionIdLimit(frozenXID, oldestxid_datoid);
SetMultiXactIdLimit(minMulti, minmulti_datoid);
AdvanceOldestCommitTsXid(frozenXID);
}