Avoid stack overflow in ShowTransactionStateRec()

The function recurses, but didn't perform stack-depth checks. It's
just a debugging aid, so instead of the usual check_stack_depth()
call, stop the printing if we'd risk stack overflow.

Here's an example of how to test this:

    (n=1000000; printf "BEGIN;"; for ((i=1;i<=$n;i++)); do printf "SAVEPOINT s$i;"; done; printf "SET log_min_messages = 'DEBUG5'; SAVEPOINT sp;") | psql >/dev/null

In the passing, swap building the list of child XIDs and recursing to
parent. That saves memory while recursing, reducing the risk of out of
memory errors with lots of subtransactions. The saving is not very
significant in practice, but this order seems more logical anyway.

Report by Egor Chindyaskin and Alexander Lakhin.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1672760457.940462079%40f306.i.mail.ru
Author: Heikki Linnakangas
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov

diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
index 1bd507230fd49f5b99e47d8b0c6a21ccaca28647..1d930752c571340fd7234cbc7c1288b4a93790e5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
@@ -5583,8 +5583,22 @@ ShowTransactionStateRec(const char *str, TransactionState s)
 {
    StringInfoData buf;
 
-   initStringInfo(&buf);
+   if (s->parent)
+   {
+       /*
+        * Since this function recurses, it could be driven to stack overflow.
+        * This is just a debugging aid, so we can leave out some details
+        * instead of erroring out with check_stack_depth().
+        */
+       if (stack_is_too_deep())
+           ereport(DEBUG5,
+                   (errmsg_internal("%s(%d): parent omitted to avoid stack overflow",
+                                    str, s->nestingLevel)));
+       else
+           ShowTransactionStateRec(str, s->parent);
+   }
 
+   initStringInfo(&buf);
    if (s->nChildXids > 0)
    {
        int         i;
@@ -5593,10 +5607,6 @@ ShowTransactionStateRec(const char *str, TransactionState s)
        for (i = 1; i < s->nChildXids; i++)
            appendStringInfo(&buf, " %u", s->childXids[i]);
    }
-
-   if (s->parent)
-       ShowTransactionStateRec(str, s->parent);
-
    ereport(DEBUG5,
            (errmsg_internal("%s(%d) name: %s; blockState: %s; state: %s, xid/subid/cid: %u/%u/%u%s%s",
                             str, s->nestingLevel,
@@ -5608,7 +5618,6 @@ ShowTransactionStateRec(const char *str, TransactionState s)
                             (unsigned int) currentCommandId,
                             currentCommandIdUsed ? " (used)" : "",
                             buf.data)));
-
    pfree(buf.data);
 }