Bug in asynchronous Append

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Bug in asynchronous Append
Date: 2026-07-03 22:00:16
Message-ID: CAPpHfduMOTnV5Zj2KGJ7zanL_10QvccZHtPUaDfJvBhsh9axnQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hi!

ExecReScanAppend() unconditionally resets callback_pending for all
AsyncRequests. The problem is that postgres_fdw keeps its own knowledge
for the same fact: PgFdwConnState.pendingAreq – a pointer to "pending async
request" for a given connection. That connection can be shared by several
partitions/foreign tables (postgres_fdw caches one connection per
server+usermapping pair). The blind reset in nodeAppend.c only touches the
local AsyncRequest.callback_pending; it never touches
PgFdwConnState.pendingAreq, which correctly points to the still-dangling
request.

Later, when another partition sharing that same connection gets its own
ReScan (for instance, its chgParam changed because of the LATERAL
parameter, and it already has a cursor open), it sends "CLOSE cursor" via
pgfdw_exec_query(). Before sending any new command on the connection, that
function first drains whatever request is still outstanding on it:

if (state && state->pendingAreq)
process_pending_request(state->pendingAreq);

And process_pending_request() starts with:

Assert(areq->callback_pending);

– which fails, because the flag was corrupted some rounds earlier.

The attached patch contains both the reproduction case and the fix. The
fix postpones the reset of the callback_pending flag
to ExecAppendAsyncBegin(). ExecAppendAsyncBegin() performs this cleanup
along with ExecReScan(), which completes the async fetch.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov
Supabase

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v1-0001-Fix-corruption-of-async-request-state-on-Append-r.patch application/octet-stream 6.4 KB

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