If a partition undergoes DETACH CONCURRENTLY immediately followed by
DROP, this could cause a problem for a concurrent transaction
recomputing the partition descriptor when running a prepared statement,
because it tries to dereference a pointer to a tuple that's not found in
a catalog scan.
The existing retry logic added in commit
dbca3469ebf8 is sufficient to
cope with the overall problem, provided we don't try to dereference a
non-existant heap tuple.
Arguably, the code in RelationBuildPartitionDesc() has been wrong all
along, since no check was added in commit
898e5e3290a7 against receiving
a NULL tuple from the catalog scan; that bug has only become
user-visible with DETACH CONCURRENTLY which was added in branch 14.
Therefore, even though there's no known mechanism to cause a crash
because of this, backpatch the addition of such a check to all supported
branches. In branches prior to 14, this would cause the code to fail
with a "missing relpartbound for relation XYZ" error instead of
crashing; that's okay, because there are no reports of such behavior
anyway.
Author: Kuntal Ghosh <
[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Junwang Zhao <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18559-
b48286d2eacd9a4e@postgresql.org
Relation pg_class;
SysScanDesc scan;
ScanKeyData key[1];
- Datum datum;
- bool isnull;
pg_class = table_open(RelationRelationId, AccessShareLock);
ScanKeyInit(&key[0],
scan = systable_beginscan(pg_class, ClassOidIndexId, true,
NULL, 1, key);
tuple = systable_getnext(scan);
- datum = heap_getattr(tuple, Anum_pg_class_relpartbound,
- RelationGetDescr(pg_class), &isnull);
- if (!isnull)
- boundspec = stringToNode(TextDatumGetCString(datum));
+ if (HeapTupleIsValid(tuple))
+ {
+ Datum datum;
+ bool isnull;
+
+ datum = heap_getattr(tuple, Anum_pg_class_relpartbound,
+ RelationGetDescr(pg_class), &isnull);
+ if (!isnull)
+ boundspec = stringToNode(TextDatumGetCString(datum));
+ }
systable_endscan(scan);
table_close(pg_class, AccessShareLock);
}