pgsql: Fix corner-case errors in brin_doupdate().

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix corner-case errors in brin_doupdate().
Date: 2017-11-02 16:55:00
Message-ID: E1eAIlg-0008Rs-5D@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix corner-case errors in brin_doupdate().

In some cases the BRIN code releases lock on an index page, and later
re-acquires lock and tries to check that the tuple it was working on is
still there. That check was a couple bricks shy of a load. It didn't
consider that the page might have turned into a "revmap" page. (The
samepage code path doesn't call brin_getinsertbuffer(), so it isn't
protected by the checks for revmap status there.) It also didn't check
whether the tuple offset was now off the end of the linepointer array.
Since commit 24992c6db the latter case is pretty common, but at least
in principle it could have occurred before that. The net result is
that concurrent updates of a BRIN index could fail with errors like
"invalid index offnum" or "inconsistent range map".

Per report from Tomas Vondra. Back-patch to 9.5, since this code is
substantially the same in all versions containing BRIN.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10d2b9f9-f427-03b8-8ad9-6af4ecacbee9@2ndquadrant.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/62a16572d5714bfb19e2a273e61218be6682d3df

Modified Files
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src/backend/access/brin/brin_pageops.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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