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While debugging issues on HEAD for the new slot forwarding feature of Postgres 11, some monitoring of the code surrounding in-memory slot data has proved that the lock handling may cause inconsistent data to be read by read-only callers of slot functions, particularly pg_get_replication_slots() which fetches data for the system view pg_replication_slots, or modules looking directly at slot information. The code paths involved in those problems concern logical decoding initialization (down to 9.4) and WAL reservation for slots (new as of 10). A set of comments documenting all the lock handlings, particularly the dependency with LW locks for slots and the in_use flag as well as the internal mutex lock is added, based on a suggested by Simon Riggs. Some of the fixed code exists down to 9.4 where WAL decoding has been introduced, but as those race conditions are really unlikely going to happen as those concern code paths for slot and decoding creation, just fix the problem on HEAD. Author: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180528085747.GA27845@paquier.xyz
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