Fix a nasty bug that was zeroing out clog and subtrans pages, thus causing

various sorts of data corruptions.

The bug dates back to the XC days, but probably became prominent in XL because
of certain recent changes. In XC/XL, a node may not see all the XIDs and hence
clog/subtrans log must be extended whenever a new XID crosses the previously
seen page boundary. We do this by comparing the pageno where the new XID maps
with the latest_page_no as stored in the shared SLRU data structure. But to
handle XID wrap-arounds, we added a check for difference in number of pages to
be less than CLOG_WRAP_CHECK_DELTA, which was incorrectly defined as
(2^30 / CLOG_XACTS_PER_PAGE). Note that "^" is a logical XOR operator in C and
hence this was returned a very small number of 28, thus causing incorrect
zeroing of pages if ExtendCLOG is called with an XID which is older than what
28 clog pages can hold. All such transactions would suddenly be marked as
aborted, resulting in removal of perfectly valid tuples.

This patch fixes the mess by just relying on built-in routines for checking
XID wrap-arounds.

I also found another issue while working on this. We must not only zero the
page at hand, but also all intermediate pages because we won't this opportunity
later if an intermediate XID is seen.

In our test setup, this seems to help some of the recent reports of data
corruption, including "missing attributes" errors.

diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/clog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/clog.c
index 543cb69d88769d9e640a2b1ee5b3d57a8d56aea9..fbb8b0fda70f30ac75d5c3c13ea778ccea26c005 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/clog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/clog.c
@@ -73,12 +73,6 @@
 #define GetLSNIndex(slotno, xid)       ((slotno) * CLOG_LSNS_PER_PAGE + \
        ((xid) % (TransactionId) CLOG_XACTS_PER_PAGE) / CLOG_XACTS_PER_LSN_GROUP)
 
-#ifdef PGXC 
-/* Check if there is about a 1 billion XID difference for XID wraparound */
-#define CLOG_WRAP_CHECK_DELTA (2^30 / CLOG_XACTS_PER_PAGE)
-#endif
-
-
 /*
  * Link to shared-memory data structures for CLOG control
  */
@@ -627,6 +621,7 @@ void
 ExtendCLOG(TransactionId newestXact)
 {
        int                     pageno;
+       TransactionId latestXid;
 
        /*
         * No work except at first XID of a page.  But beware: just after
@@ -638,20 +633,22 @@ ExtendCLOG(TransactionId newestXact)
         * and therefore will be skipped, so we need to detect this by using
         * the latest_page_number instead of the pg index.
         *
-        * Also, there is a special case of when transactions wrap-around that
-        * we need to detect.
+        * latest_page_number always points to the last page of CLOG. We don't need
+        * to do anything for an XID that maps to a page that precedes or equals
+        * the latest_page_number. To handle wrap-around correctly, we just compute
+        * the last XID mapped to latest_page_number and compare that against the
+        * passed in XID.
         */
        pageno = TransactionIdToPage(newestXact);
 
        /* 
-        * The first condition makes sure we did not wrap around 
-        * The second checks if we are still using the same page
         * Note that this value can change and we are not holding a lock, 
         * so we repeat the check below. We do it this way instead of 
         * grabbing the lock to avoid lock contention.
         */
-       if (ClogCtl->shared->latest_page_number - pageno <= CLOG_WRAP_CHECK_DELTA 
-                       && pageno <= ClogCtl->shared->latest_page_number)
+       latestXid = (ClogCtl->shared->latest_page_number * CLOG_XACTS_PER_PAGE)
+                                       + CLOG_XACTS_PER_PAGE - 1;
+       if (TransactionIdPrecedesOrEquals(newestXact, latestXid))
                return;
 #else
        if (TransactionIdToPgIndex(newestXact) != 0 &&
@@ -669,17 +666,31 @@ ExtendCLOG(TransactionId newestXact)
         * out the page already and advanced the latest_page_number
         * while we were waiting for the lock.
         */
-       if (ClogCtl->shared->latest_page_number - pageno <= CLOG_WRAP_CHECK_DELTA 
-                       && pageno <= ClogCtl->shared->latest_page_number)
+       latestXid = (ClogCtl->shared->latest_page_number * CLOG_XACTS_PER_PAGE)
+                                       + CLOG_XACTS_PER_PAGE - 1;
+       if (TransactionIdPrecedesOrEquals(newestXact, latestXid))
        {
                LWLockRelease(CLogControlLock);
                return;
        }
-#endif
 
-       /* Zero the page and make an XLOG entry about it */
+       /*
+        * We must initialise all pages between latest_page_number and pageno,
+        * taking into consideration XID wraparound
+        */
+       for (;;)
+       {
+               /* Zero the page and make an XLOG entry about it */
+               int target_pageno = ClogCtl->shared->latest_page_number + 1;
+               if (target_pageno > TransactionIdToPage(MaxTransactionId))
+                       target_pageno = 0;
+               ZeroCLOGPage(target_pageno, true);
+               if (target_pageno == pageno)
+                       break;
+       }
+#else
        ZeroCLOGPage(pageno, true);
-
+#endif
        LWLockRelease(CLogControlLock);
 }
 

diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/subtrans.c b/src/backend/access/transam/subtrans.c
index 68c52d527c0755498fe07a54c486a4e1f8de609e..52318d3ff941b53a389c7591948a74512de3d402 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/subtrans.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/subtrans.c
@@ -35,11 +35,6 @@
 #include "pg_trace.h"
 #include "utils/snapmgr.h"
 
-#ifdef PGXC 
-/* Check if there is about a 1 billion XID difference for XID wraparound */
-#define SUBTRANS_WRAP_CHECK_DELTA (2^30 / SUBTRANS_XACTS_PER_PAGE)
-#endif
-
 /*
  * Defines for SubTrans page sizes.  A page is the same BLCKSZ as is used
  * everywhere else in Postgres.
@@ -315,6 +310,7 @@ void
 ExtendSUBTRANS(TransactionId newestXact)
 {
        int                     pageno;
+       TransactionId latestSubXid;
 
        /*
         * No work except at first XID of a page.  But beware: just after
@@ -326,8 +322,11 @@ ExtendSUBTRANS(TransactionId newestXact)
         * and therefore will be skipped, so we need to detect this by using
         * the latest_page_number instead of the pg index.
         *
-        * Also, there is a special case of when transactions wrap-around that
-        * we need to detect.
+        * latest_page_number always points to the last page of SubtransLog. We
+        * don't need to do anything for an XID that maps to a page that precedes
+        * or equals the latest_page_number. To handle wrap-around correctly, we
+        * just compute the last XID mapped to latest_page_number and compare that
+        * against the passed in XID.
         */
        pageno = TransactionIdToPage(newestXact);
 
@@ -338,8 +337,9 @@ ExtendSUBTRANS(TransactionId newestXact)
         * so we repeat the check below. We do it this way instead of 
         * grabbing the lock to avoid lock contention.
         */
-       if (SubTransCtl->shared->latest_page_number - pageno <= SUBTRANS_WRAP_CHECK_DELTA 
-                       && pageno <= SubTransCtl->shared->latest_page_number)
+       latestSubXid = (SubTransCtl->shared->latest_page_number *
+                       SUBTRANS_XACTS_PER_PAGE) + SUBTRANS_XACTS_PER_PAGE - 1;
+       if (TransactionIdPrecedesOrEquals(newestXact, latestSubXid))
                return;
 #else
        if (TransactionIdToEntry(newestXact) != 0 &&
@@ -357,16 +357,32 @@ ExtendSUBTRANS(TransactionId newestXact)
         * out the page already and advanced the latest_page_number
         * while we were waiting for the lock.
         */
-       if (SubTransCtl->shared->latest_page_number - pageno <= SUBTRANS_WRAP_CHECK_DELTA 
-                       && pageno <= SubTransCtl->shared->latest_page_number)
+       latestSubXid = (SubTransCtl->shared->latest_page_number *
+                       SUBTRANS_XACTS_PER_PAGE) + SUBTRANS_XACTS_PER_PAGE - 1;
+       if (TransactionIdPrecedesOrEquals(newestXact, latestSubXid))
        {
                LWLockRelease(SubtransControlLock);
                return;
        }
-#endif
 
+       /*
+        * We must initialise all pages between latest_page_number and pageno,
+        * taking into consideration XID wraparound
+        */
+       for (;;)
+       {
+               /* Zero the page and make an XLOG entry about it */
+               int target_pageno = SubTransCtl->shared->latest_page_number + 1;
+               if (target_pageno > TransactionIdToPage(MaxTransactionId))
+                       target_pageno = 0;
+               ZeroSUBTRANSPage(target_pageno);
+               if (target_pageno == pageno)
+                       break;
+       }
+#else
        /* Zero the page */
        ZeroSUBTRANSPage(pageno);
+#endif
 
        LWLockRelease(SubtransControlLock);
 }