Re: PG19 FK fast path: OOB write and missed FK checks during batched

From: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Ayush Tiwari <ayushtiwari(dot)slg01(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nikolay Samokhvalov <nik(at)postgres(dot)ai>, pgsql-hackers mailing list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrey Borodin <amborodin(at)acm(dot)org>, Kirk Wolak <wolakk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PG19 FK fast path: OOB write and missed FK checks during batched
Date: 2026-06-12 02:46:07
Message-ID: CA+HiwqFwUwakVfcmC2-AQEjO2kgqfy8n0qqxcMkvDBsLGdMgjA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 6:51 PM Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 5:05 PM Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 5:18 PM Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > > I only reviewed and applied patch 0001 on my local machine, and it
> > > > successfully fixed the crash.
> > > >
> > > > One minor comment:
> > > >
> > > > + if (fpentry->flushing)
> > > > + {
> > > > + ri_FastPathCheck(riinfo, fk_rel, newslot);
> > > > + return;
> > > > + }
> > > >
> > > > Would it be worth wrapping the condition with unlikely()? It seems
> > > > this branch is expected to be false in most cases, not a strong
> > > > opinion though.
> > >
> > > Good idea. Will do.
> > >
> > > Are you planning to look at 0002?
> >
> > I just applied 0002 and ran the regression successfully.
> >
> > I have one trivial comment, subXact abort doesn't NULL the
> > ri_fastpath_cache, so I think the following comment of
> > RI_FastPathEntry should be polished accordingly by removing the
> > `SubXactCallback`.
> >
> > * ri_FastPathEndBatch(); on abort, ResourceOwner releases the cached
> > * relations and the XactCallback/SubXactCallback NULL the static cache pointer
> > * to prevent any subsequent access.
>
> Thanks for the review. Yes, I missed that.
>
> I've updated the patches to address your comments and did some other polishing.

I've pushed these now. Thank you everyone.

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Thanks, Amit Langote

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