Re: Potential ABI breakage in upcoming minor releases

Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>

From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
To: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Marco Slot <marco.slot@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Date: 2024-11-15T18:35:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Undo unintentional ABI break in struct ResultRelInfo.

  2. For inplace update durability, make heap_update() callers wait.

  3. Fix btmarkpos/btrestrpos array key wraparound bug.

  4. Fix calculation of which GENERATED columns need to be updated.

On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 11:39:24PM +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 11:22 PM Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> > > I'm starting to lean to the opinion that we need a re-wrap.
> >
> > Perhaps.  Even if we do rewrap for some reason, it's not a given that
> > restoring the old struct size is net beneficial.  If we restore the old
> > struct
> > size in v16.6, those who rebuild for v16.5 would need to rebuild again.
> > Hearing about other ResultRelInfo arrays will help clarify that decision.
> 
> Looking more carefully at the usage of `ResultRelInfo` in the PGD code, I
> think we might also be impacted by it. At one place, we loop through the
> `es_result_relations` array and a size mismatch there will cause problems.
> Interestingly, in v14 and above, we read from `es_opened_result_relations`,
> which is a List, so it should be safe. I will try some tests on v13 to see
> if they result in crashes. But it seems quite likely by reading the code.

I agree.  I'm investigating the scope of damage from es_result_relations.