Re: Failures in constraints regression test, "read only 0 of 8192 bytes"

On 21/06/2024 02:12, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
>> In commit af0e7deb4a, I removed the call to RelationCloseSmgr() from
>> RelationCacheInvalidate(). I thought it was no longer needed, because we
>> no longer free the underlying SmgrRelation.
> 
>> However, it meant that if the relfilenode of the relation was changed,
>> the relation keeps pointing to the SMgrRelation of the old relfilenode.
>> So we still need the RelationCloseSmgr() call, in case the relfilenode
>> has changed.
> 
> Ouch.  How come we did not see this immediately in testing?  I'd have
> thought surely such a bug would be exposed by any command that
> rewrites a heap.

There is a RelationCloseSmgr() call in RelationClearRelation(), which 
covers the common cases. This only occurs during 
RelationCacheInvalidate(), when pg_class's relfilenumber was changed.

Hmm, looking closer, I think this might be a more appropriate place for 
the RelationCloseSmgr() call:

> 			/*
> 			 * If it's a mapped relation, immediately update its rd_locator in
> 			 * case its relfilenumber changed.  We must do this during phase 1
> 			 * in case the relation is consulted during rebuild of other
> 			 * relcache entries in phase 2.  It's safe since consulting the
> 			 * map doesn't involve any access to relcache entries.
> 			 */
> 			if (RelationIsMapped(relation))
> 				RelationInitPhysicalAddr(relation);

That's where we change the relfilenumber, before the 
RelationClearRelation() call.

-- 
Heikki Linnakangas
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