Re: BUG #15631: Generated as identity field in a temporary table with on commit drop corrupts system catalogs

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, dnsl48(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #15631: Generated as identity field in a temporary table with on commit drop corrupts system catalogs
Date: 2019-02-12 14:00:34
Message-ID: 043b0c10-5a27-b9ff-7451-b8a2ca9327b1@2ndquadrant.com
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On 11/02/2019 21:33, Tom Lane wrote:
> I don't have time to probe further right now, but I believe what is
> wrong is that we're missing a CommandCounterIncrement call after the
> sequence is created, or at least after its internal dependency on the
> table column is created. When the transaction commits immediately,
> dependency.c fails to see the internal dependency entry and so it
> doesn't remove the sequence. Wrapped in a transaction, there's a
> CCI somewhere and all is well.

Right. I think it would be good to put a CommandCounterIncrement() at
the top of PreCommit_on_commit_actions(). That ensures that the
dependency code always see the latest state.

> That bollixes later attempts to clean out the temp
> namespace, since deletion tries to recurse to the missing table.

Should there be some warnings when this happens?

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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