Avoid race in RelationBuildDesc() affecting CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.
authorNoah Misch <[email protected]>
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 01:36:38 +0000 (18:36 -0700)
committerNoah Misch <[email protected]>
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 01:36:43 +0000 (18:36 -0700)
commite428699cb3be0a7abbd5a83bfa5ec3e26c7fea84
treece0f452d9aa93568771ca7ed2a0da58957c1cb83
parentb1df061f704bcb182d3b71cf9d25b9ef07202396
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[email protected]
src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c
src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
src/bin/pgbench/t/022_cic.pl [new file with mode: 0644]
src/include/utils/inval.h
src/include/utils/relcache.h
src/test/perl/PostgresNode.pm
src/test/perl/TestLib.pm
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list