Re: Regression tests failures due to concurrent grants

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Jeff Davis <jdavis(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Regression tests failures due to concurrent grants
Date: 2026-09-18 18:08:43
Message-ID: 8efa9c42549c5a7d10c3876bf42f924ef28b6946.camel@j-davis.com
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On Fri, 2026-09-18 at 12:56 -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> To do better, we would need to use a
>  * self-exclusive lock, perhaps ShareUpdateExclusiveLock, here and
> before
>  * *every* CatalogTupleUpdate() of a row that GRANT/REVOKE can
> affect.

...

> I also am not convinced that cancelling autovacs in response to a
> command like
> this would be the end of the world.

For GRANT/REVOKE, that matches my intuition. But if we need a stronger
lock before every modification of a catalog row, that's a larger change
that would affect lots of DDL.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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