Re: On login trigger: take three

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mikhail Gribkov <youzhick(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ivan Panchenko <wao(at)mail(dot)ru>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar(dot)ahmad(at)gmail(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: On login trigger: take three
Date: 2023-10-29 15:16:01
Message-ID: 2133270.1698592561@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Mikhail Gribkov <youzhick(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Just for a more complete picture of the final state here.
> I have posted the described fix (for avoiding race condition in the tests)
> separately:
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/45/4616/

It turns out that the TAP test for this feature (006_login_trigger.pl)
also has a race condition:

https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=mamba&dt=2023-10-28%2003%3A33%3A28

The critical bit of the log is

ack Broken pipe: write( 14, 'SELECT 1;' ) at /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.36.0/IPC/Run/IO.pm line 550.

It looks to me that what happened here is that the backend completed the
authentication handshake, and then the login trigger caused a FATAL exit,
and after than the connected psql session tried to send "SELECT 1" on
an already-closed pipe. That failed, causing IPC::Run to panic.

mamba is a fairly slow machine and doubtless has timing a bit different
from what this test was created on. But I doubt there is any way to make
this behavior perfectly stable across a range of machines, so I recommend
just removing the test case involving a fatal exit.

regards, tom lane

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