Re: DROP OWNED CASCADE vs Temp tables

On 2020-Jan-07, Mithun Cy wrote:

> I have a test where a user creates a temp table and then disconnect,
> concurrently we try to do DROP OWNED BY CASCADE on the same user. Seems
> this causes race condition between temptable deletion during disconnection
> (@RemoveTempRelations(myTempNamespace)) and DROP OWNED BY CASCADE operation
> which will try to remove same temp table when they find them as part of
> pg_shdepend.

Cute.

This seems fiddly to handle better; maybe you'd have to have a new
PERFORM_DELETION_* flag that says to ignore "missing" objects; so when
you go from shdepDropOwned, you pass that flag all the way down to
doDeletion(), so the objtype-specific function is called with
"missing_ok", and ignore if the object has already gone away. That's
tedious because none of the Remove* functions have the concept of
missing_ok.

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