Re: Is temporary functions feature official/supported? Found some issues with it.

Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alexey Bashtanov <bashtanov@imap.cc>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>, mmitar@gmail.com
Date: 2019-01-09T07:00:51Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:42 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 09:00:37AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > I think I can get that worked out with a back-patchable approach,
> > still it looks a bit sensitive because of the creation-pending logic
> > which relies on the assertion at the top of InitTempTableNamespace,
> > which is a case we may want to handle with an extra flag for the
> > caller of InitTempTableNamespace(), aka "fail if myTempNamespace is
> > valid instead of just returning back".
>
> Looking at this stuff, I have been able to come up with the attached,
> which introduces a new flag mode for MyXactFlags, which gets set in a
> couple of code paths so as PREPARE TRANSACTIOn complains:
> - When attempting a LOCK on a temporary relation.
> - When dropping objects part of a temporary namespace.
> - When trying to access the temporary schema of a session, where it
> may be initialized (or not if already present).
>

Thank you for the patch. I've looked at the patch and have one question.

 /*
  * XACT_FLAGS_ACCESSEDTEMPREL - set when a temporary relation is accessed. We
  * don't allow PREPARE TRANSACTION in that case.
  */
 #define XACT_FLAGS_ACCESSEDTEMPREL              (1U << 0)
(snip)
 +/*
+ * XACT_FLAGS_ACCESSEDTEMPNAMESPACE - set when a temporary namespace is
+ * accessed.  We don't allow PREPARE TRANSACTION in that case.
+ */
+#define XACT_FLAGS_ACCESSEDTEMPNAMESPACE        (1U << 2)

The cases where we set XACT_FLAGS_ACCESSEDTEMPNAMESPACE seems to
include the cases setting XACT_FLAGS_ACCESSEDTEMPREL. Is there any
path where we access a temporary relation without accessing temprary
namespace?

Regards,

--
Masahiko Sawada
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center


Commits

  1. Restrict the use of temporary namespace in two-phase transactions