Re: Concurrency bug in UPDATE of partition-key

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-06-11T09:32:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 1:53 PM, Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 June 2018 at 11:44, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 8:03 PM, Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I think this will allow before row delete triggers to be fired more than
>> once.  Normally, if the EvalPlanQual testing generates a new tuple, we don't
>> fire the triggers again.
>
> If there are BR delete triggers, the tuple will be locked using
> GetTupleForTrigger(). So the subsequent EvalPlanQual testing won't be
> run, since the tuple is already locked due to triggers having run.
>
> But that leads me to think : The same concurrency issue can occur in
> GetTupleForTrigger() also. Say, a concurrent session has already
> locked the tuple, and GetTupleForTrigger() would wait and then return
> the updated tuple in its last parameter newSlot. In that case, we need
> to pass this slot back through ExecBRDeleteTriggers(), and further
> through epqslot parameter of ExecDelete(). But yes, in this case, we
> should avoid calling this trigger function the second time.
>
> If you agree on the above, I will send an updated patch.
>

Sounds reasonable to me.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com


Commits

  1. Allow using the updated tuple while moving it to a different partition.