Re: BUG #14208: Inconsistent code modification - 3

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: petrum(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #14208: Inconsistent code modification - 3
Date: 2016-06-30 16:40:19
Message-ID: 8242.1467304819@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2016-06-22 11:45:16 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Actually, the function is ReorderBufferIterTXNInit, and in HEAD this
>> is line 963, but yeah that looks pretty broken. Andres, do you
>> concur?

> Ugh, yes, that looks broken. In a way that can very likely lead to wrong
> data being returned :(. I assume an empty toplevel transaction +
> subtransactions with spilled-to-disk contents will be bad.

Actually, doesn't this mean spilled subtransactions will *always* be lost?
Whether or not the toplevel transaction is empty, by the time we get here
it would have nentries == nentries_mem, no?

Anyway, fix pushed. I did not try to devise a regression test case.

regards, tom lane

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