Re: not null constraints, again
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>,
Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>,
Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-04-14T17:13:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Attachments
- restore-deadlock.sh (text/plain)
The attached script simply creates two partitioned tables that
are connected by a foreign key constraint, then pg_dumps that
setup and tries to do a parallel restore. This works up until
14e87ffa5c543b5f30ead7413084c25f7735039f is the first bad commit
commit 14e87ffa5c543b5f30ead7413084c25f7735039f
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: Fri Nov 8 13:28:48 2024 +0100
Add pg_constraint rows for not-null constraints
Since that commit, it fails every time (for me, anyway, on a couple
of different machines) with a deadlock error, typically between
ALTER ADD PRIMARY KEY and one of the table COPY commands:
2025-04-14 12:54:49.892 EDT [1278062] ERROR: deadlock detected
2025-04-14 12:54:49.892 EDT [1278062] DETAIL: Process 1278062 waits for AccessExclusiveLock on relation 47164 of database 47159; blocked by process 1278059.
Process 1278059 waits for AccessShareLock on relation 47160 of database 47159; blocked by process 1278062.
Process 1278062: ALTER TABLE ONLY public.parent1
ADD CONSTRAINT parent1_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id);
Process 1278059: COPY public.c11 (id, b) FROM stdin;
I stumbled across this result after wondering why the repro
I'd devised at [1] didn't fail in v17.
The patch I propose there seems to prevent this, but I wonder if we
shouldn't look closer into why it's failing in the first place.
I would not have expected that adding pg_constraint rows implies
stronger locks than what ALTER ADD PRIMARY KEY was using before,
and I suspect that doing so will cause more problems than just
breaking parallel restore.
regards, tom lane
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2045026.1743801143@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commits
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Suppress "may be used uninitialized" warnings from older compilers.
- fc5e966f73f0 18.0 landed
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Elide not-null constraint checks on child tables during PK creation
- 11ff192b5bb7 18.0 landed
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Remove unnecessary code to handle CONSTR_NOTNULL
- 5b291d1c9c09 18.0 landed
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Silence compilers about extractNotNullColumn()
- ff239c3bf4e8 18.0 landed
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Add pg_constraint rows for not-null constraints
- 14e87ffa5c54 18.0 landed