Re: Deadlock in multiple CIC.

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Deadlock in multiple CIC.
Date: 2018-01-03 02:22:42
Message-ID: 20180103022242.yjyjcg2ndqwc6sss@alvherre.pgsql
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Jeff Janes wrote:
> c3d09b3bd23f5f6 fixed it so concurrent CIC would not deadlock (or at least
> not as reliably as before) by dropping its own snapshot before waiting for
> all the other ones to go away.
>
> With commit 8aa3e47510b969354ea02a, concurrent CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY on
> different tables in the same database started deadlocking against each
> other again quite reliably.
>
> I think the solution is simply to drop the catalog snapshot as well, as in
> the attached.

Pushed to all affected branches, along with a somewhat lame
isolationtester test for the condition (since we've already broken this
twice and not noticed for long).

Thanks for the diagnosis and patch,

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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