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

From: "Matheus Alcantara" <matheusssilv97(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Arseniy Mukhin" <arseniy(dot)mukhin(dot)dev(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Matheus Alcantara" <matheusssilv97(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Masahiko Sawada" <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, "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>, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>, "Alexandra Wang" <alexandra(dot)wang(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Joel Jacobson" <joel(at)compiler(dot)org>
Subject: Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY bug: VACUUM sets frozenxid past a xid in async queue
Date: 2025-10-01 11:57:38
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On Sun Sep 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM -03, Arseniy Mukhin wrote:
>> I agree it would be great to have more tests for such cases. As for
>> the 'committed field' patch, I think we can add a TAP test that shows
>> that listeners postpone processing of notifications until
>> notifications were marked as 'committed=false' in case of aborted
>> transactions. I tried to write one, but have not succeeded yet. Hope
>> to finish it soon.
>
> I finally managed to write a TAP test for it, so there is a new
> version with the tap test.
>
> I also realized that we can increase test coverage in
> 002_aborted_tx_notifies.pl if notifications of the aborted transaction
> span several pages. This way we can better test
> asyncQueueRollbackNotifications(). So I changed
> 002_aborted_tx_notifies.pl TAP test a bit.
>
> And there is a small indentation change in lmgr.h that should fix this
> git am warning.
>
Thanks for the patches.

I've created a CF entry so we can get more reviews and comments:
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/6095/

Let's see what other think about the approach being used to fix this
issue.

--
Matheus Alcantara

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