Avoid race in RelationBuildDesc() affecting CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.
authorNoah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 01:36:38 +0000 (18:36 -0700)
committerNoah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 01:36:38 +0000 (18:36 -0700)
commitfdd965d074d46765c295223b119ca437dbcac973
tree5fb2acb761849c3bf6f5f15ac783ddd561c6186b
parent1e9475694b0ae2cf1204d01d2ef6ad86f3c7cac8
Avoid race in RelationBuildDesc() affecting CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.

CIC and REINDEX CONCURRENTLY assume backends see their catalog changes
no later than each backend's next transaction start.  That failed to
hold when a backend absorbed a relevant invalidation in the middle of
running RelationBuildDesc() on the CIC index.  Queries that use the
resulting index can silently fail to find rows.  Fix this for future
index builds by making RelationBuildDesc() loop until it finishes
without accepting a relevant invalidation.  It may be necessary to
reindex to recover from past occurrences; REINDEX CONCURRENTLY suffices.
Back-patch to 9.6 (all supported versions).

Noah Misch and Andrey Borodin, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Andres
Freund.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210730022548.GA1940096@gust.leadboat.com
contrib/amcheck/t/002_cic.pl [new file with mode: 0644]
src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c
src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
src/bin/pgbench/t/001_pgbench_with_server.pl
src/include/utils/inval.h
src/include/utils/relcache.h
src/test/perl/PostgresNode.pm
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list