It turns out that TablespaceCreateDbspace fails badly if a relcache flush

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 7618330c6d205021a118c1994505be2ceaec25d6
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2006-01-19T04:45:47Z
Releases: 8.1.3
It turns out that TablespaceCreateDbspace fails badly if a relcache flush
occurs when it tries to heap_open pg_tablespace.  When control returns to
smgrcreate, that routine will be holding a dangling pointer to a closed
SMgrRelation, resulting in mayhem.  This is of course a consequence of
the violation of proper module layering inherent in having smgr.c call
a tablespace command routine, but the simplest fix seems to be to change
the locking mechanism.  There's no real need for TablespaceCreateDbspace
to touch pg_tablespace at all --- it's only opening it as a way of locking
against a parallel DROP TABLESPACE command.  A much better answer is to
create a special-purpose LWLock to interlock these two operations.
This drops TablespaceCreateDbspace quite a few layers down the food chain
and makes it something reasonably safe for smgr to call.

Files

PathChange+/−
src/backend/commands/tablespace.c modified +25 −29
src/include/storage/lwlock.h modified +2 −1