Re: BUG #19484: Segmentation fault triggered by FDW

Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>

From: "Matheus Alcantara" <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
To: "Ayush Tiwari" <ayushtiwari.slg01@gmail.com>, <798604270@qq.com>, <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>, "Etsuro Fujita" <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-05-22T20:56:05Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On Wed May 20, 2026 at 9:37 AM -03, Ayush Tiwari wrote:
> I reproduced the crash on master.  The plan EXPLAIN under
> force_generic_plan shows runtime pruning is in effect:
>
>   Update on pt
>     Foreign Update on pt_p2 pt_2
>     ->  Append
>           Subplans Removed: 1
>           ->  Foreign Update on pt_p2 pt_2
>
> The SEGV happens inside postgresBeginForeignModify() because
> ExecInitModifyTable() builds re-indexed "kept" copies of several
> parallel per-result-relation lists after dropping pruned relations -
> withCheckOptionLists, returningLists, updateColnosLists,
> mergeActionLists and mergeJoinConditions, however two members were
> missed:
>
>   - node->fdwPrivLists, read with list_nth(node->fdwPrivLists, i) when
>     BeginForeignModify() is called, and
>   - node->fdwDirectModifyPlans, checked with bms_is_member(i, ...) when
>     setting ri_usesFdwDirectModify.
>
> Both were still indexed against the original (pre-pruning) positions
> while the surrounding loop's "i" is now the kept position.  When the
> foreign partition's kept-index no longer matched its original index,
> BeginForeignModify() got the wrong fdw_private and crashed.
>
> Attached patch builds re-indexed kept copies for these two arrays in
> the same loop as the other parallel lists, and uses them at the two
> call sites.
>

Hi, thanks for the patch. This issue started on version 18 by commit
cbc127917e0.

The patch fixes the issue and it make sense to me. One a minor comment
is that I think pg_indent is needed on nodeModifyTable.c

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Matheus Alcantara
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Commits

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  1. Avoid ABI break in ModifyTableState from the FDW pruning fix

  2. Re-index ModifyTable FDW arrays when pruning result relations

  3. Fix universal builds on MacOS

  4. Track unpruned relids to avoid processing pruned relations