Re: Recovering from detoast-related catcache invalidations

Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>

From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Xiaoran Wang <fanfuxiaoran@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2024-01-14T20:14:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Fix catcache invalidation of a list entry that's being built

  2. Cope with inplace update making catcache stale during TOAST fetch.

  3. Add previous commit to .git-blame-ignore-revs.

  4. Re-pgindent catcache.c after previous commit.

  5. Cope with catcache entries becoming stale during detoasting.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 03:47:13PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > This is uncomfortably much in bed with the tuple table slot code,
> > perhaps, but I don't see a way to do it more cleanly unless we want
> > to add some new provisions to that API.  Andres, do you have any
> > thoughts about that?
> 
> Oh!  After nosing around a bit more I remembered systable_recheck_tuple,
> which is meant for exactly this purpose.  So v4 attached.

systable_recheck_tuple() is blind to heap_inplace_update(), so it's not a
general proxy for invalidation messages.  The commit for $SUBJECT (ad98fb1)
doesn't create any new malfunctions, but I expect the systable_recheck_tuple()
part will change again before the heap_inplace_update() story is over
(https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAMp+ueZQz3yDk7qg42hk6-9gxniYbp-=bG2mgqecErqR5gGGOA@mail.gmail.com).