Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY bug: VACUUM sets frozenxid past a xid in async queue

From: Arseniy Mukhin <arseniy(dot)mukhin(dot)dev(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>, Joel Jacobson <joel(at)compiler(dot)org>, Rishu Bagga <rishu(dot)postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Yura Sokolov <y(dot)sokolov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Daniil Davydov <3danissimo(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexandra Wang <alexandra(dot)wang(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY bug: VACUUM sets frozenxid past a xid in async queue
Date: 2025-10-25 13:08:41
Message-ID: CAE7r3MJgJj4D_6mPHMr-4xCrYK7q04M3jM1J_=4baphjA2WeBA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM Matheus Alcantara
<matheusssilv97(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri Oct 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM -03, Arseniy Mukhin wrote:
> >> I would expect to add 002_aborted_tx_notifies.pl in a separate patch
> >> since it's not related to this bug fix.
> >>
> >> ---
> >> +# Test checks that listeners do not receive notifications from aborted
> >> +# transaction even if notifications have been added to the listen/notify
> >> +# queue. To reproduce it we use the fact that serializable conflicts
> >> +# are checked after tx adds notifications to the queue.
> >>
> >> I wonder if we could implement this test using the isolation test
> >> instead of the tap test. Is there any reason why you used a tap test
> >> for that?
> >>
> >
> > I agree it's less relevant to the patch now than it was with the new
> > 'committed' field approach. And there is no particular reason why it
> > was implemented as a TAP test actually.. So +1 to move it to separate
> > patch (does it mean to separate thread as well or just separate patch
> > file?) and rewrite as an isolation test (IIUC it's better to use
> > isolation test infrastructure if it's possible). I can try to do it if
> > nobody else does it earlier.
> >
> On the v11 version that I've sent on [1] I've move this test into a
> separate patch, please feel free to implement it as an isolation test if
> you want it.
>

Thank you!

I reimplemented the test in 0002 as an isolation test and added the
commit message. PFA the new version.

Best regards,
Arseniy Mukhin

Attachment Content-Type Size
v12-0002-Add-test-for-listen-notify.patch text/x-patch 4.2 KB
v12-0001-Prevent-VACUUM-from-truncating-XIDs-still-presen.patch text/x-patch 15.6 KB

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