pgsql: Avoid possible deadlock while locking multiple heap pages.

From: Amit Kapila <akapila(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Avoid possible deadlock while locking multiple heap pages.
Date: 2019-02-02 10:27:27
Message-ID: E1gpsWF-0007XZ-Aw@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Avoid possible deadlock while locking multiple heap pages.

To avoid deadlock, backend acquires a lock on heap pages in block
number order. In certain cases, lock on heap pages is dropped and
reacquired. In this case, the locks are dropped for reading in
corresponding VM page/s. The issue is we re-acquire locks in bufferId
order whereas the intention was to acquire in blockid order.

This commit ensures that we will always acquire locks on heap pages in
blockid order.

Reported-by: Nishant Fnu
Author: Nishant Fnu
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila and Robert Haas
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5883C831-2ED1-47C8-BFAC-2D5BAE5A8CAE@amazon.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0b8bdb3c3ec092f18813d5b6fc738d7ec450289b

Modified Files
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src/backend/access/heap/hio.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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