Re: HS locking broken in HEAD

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> > I think it might also be a dangerous assumption for shared objects?
>>
>> Locks on shared objects can't be taken via the fast path. In order to
>> take a fast-path lock, a backend must be bound to a database and the
>> locktag must be for a relation in that database.
>
> I assumed it wasn't allowed, but didn't find where that happens at first
> - I found it now though (c.f. SetLocktagRelationOid).
>
>> > A patch minimally addressing the is attached, but it only addresses part
>> > of the problem.
>>
>> Isn't the right fix to compare proc->databaseId to
>> locktag->locktag_field1 rather than to MyDatabaseId? The subsequent
>> loop assumes that if the relid matches, the lock tag is an exact
>> match, which will be correct with that rule but not the one you
>> propose.
>
> I don't know much about the locking code, you're probably right. I also
> didn't look very far after finding the guilty commit.
>
> (reading code)
>
> Yes, I think you're right, that seems to be the actually correct fix.
>
> I am a bit worried that there are more such assumptions in the code, but
> I didn't find any, but I really don't know that code.

I found two instances of this. See attached patch.

Can you test whether this fixes it for you?

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