Re: [CLOBBER_CACHE]Server crashed with segfault 11 while executing clusterdb

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Neha Sharma <neha(dot)sharma(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Amul Sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [CLOBBER_CACHE]Server crashed with segfault 11 while executing clusterdb
Date: 2021-03-23 15:29:24
Message-ID: 887898.1616513364@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
>> One bisect later, the winner is:
>> commit: 3d351d916b20534f973eda760cde17d96545d4c4
>> author: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
>> date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 12:21:51 -0400
>> Redefine pg_class.reltuples to be -1 before the first VACUUM or ANALYZE.

> I think that's an artifact. That commit didn't touch anything related to
> relation opening or closing. What it could have done, though, is change
> CLUSTER's behavior on this empty table from use-an-index to use-a-seqscan,
> thus causing us to follow the buggy code path where before we didn't.

On closer inspection, I believe the true culprit is c6b92041d,
which did this:

*/
if (RelationNeedsWAL(state->rs_new_rel))
- heap_sync(state->rs_new_rel);
+ smgrimmedsync(state->rs_new_rel->rd_smgr, MAIN_FORKNUM);

logical_end_heap_rewrite(state);

heap_sync was careful about opening rd_smgr, the new code not so much.

I read the rest of that commit and didn't see any other equivalent
bugs, but I might've missed something.

regards, tom lane

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