Re: Accessing an invalid pointer in BufferManagerRelation structure

From: Stepan Neretin <slpmcf(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Daniil Davydov <3danissimo(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Accessing an invalid pointer in BufferManagerRelation structure
Date: 2025-05-10 17:36:27
Message-ID: CA+Yyo5RZps-LLDd1Jiub5qVg-3hz+r0gi3F_fk+6=nmtGaOgHA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM Daniil Davydov <3danissimo(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM Stepan Neretin <slpmcf(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > The first thing we both noticed is that the macro calls a function that
> won't be available without an additional header. This seems a bit
> inconvenient.
>
> Well, I rebased the patch onto the latest `master`
> (b51f86e49a7f119004c0ce5d0be89cdf98309141) and noticed that we don't
> need to include `rel.h` in `localbuf.c` directly anymore, because
> `#include lmgr.h` was added in memutils.h
> I guess it solves this issue. Please, see v3 patch.
>
> > I also have a question: is the logic correct that if the relation is
> valid, we should fetch it rather than the other way around? Additionally,
> is checking only the `rd_isvalid` flag sufficient, or should we also
> consider the flag below?
> >
> > ```
> > bool rd_isvalid; /* relcache entry is valid */
> >
>
> I don't think that we should check any Relation's flags here. We are
> checking `RelationIsValid((bmr).rel) ?` to decide whether
> BufferManagerRelation was created via BMR_REL or BMR_SMGR.
> If the `rel` field is not NULL, we can definitely say that BMR_REL was
> used, so we should call RelationGetSmgr in order to access smgr.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Daniil Davydov
>

Hi, now looks good for me.
--
Best regards,
Stepan Neretin

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