Re: BUG #15309: ERROR: catalog is missing 1 attribute(s) for relid 760676 when max_parallel_maintenance_workers > 0

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, deathlock13(at)gmail(dot)com, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #15309: ERROR: catalog is missing 1 attribute(s) for relid 760676 when max_parallel_maintenance_workers > 0
Date: 2018-08-06 22:14:39
Message-ID: 14965.1533593679@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2018-Aug-06, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> Sure enough, that's what the bug is - a few debugging calls to
>> RelationMapFilenodeToOid() within nbtsort.c proves it.

> Uh, that's weird, isn't it? I mean, why is the relfilenode changing
> underneath?

Because we're building a brand new index in a new file.

> Why isn't it blocked by the CREATE INDEX? Or is CREATE
> INDEX inflicting that upon itself?

The problem is (or so I assume) failure to propagate process-local
state of relmapper.c into the worker processes. So the leader knows
that we've assigned a new relfilenode to some mapped index, but the
workers don't.

regards, tom lane

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