pgsql: Fix potential SSI hazard in heap_update().

From: Thomas Munro <tmunro(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix potential SSI hazard in heap_update().
Date: 2021-04-13 01:04:37
Message-ID: E1lW7Tp-0002aJ-Jj@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix potential SSI hazard in heap_update().

Commit 6f38d4dac38 failed to heed a warning about the stability of the
value pointed to by "otid". The caller is allowed to pass in a pointer to
newtup->t_self, which will be updated during the execution of the
function. Instead, the SSI check should use the value we copy into
oldtup.t_self near the top of the function.

Not a live bug, because newtup->t_self doesn't really get updated until
a bit later, but it was confusing and broke the rule established by the
comment.

Back-patch to 13.

Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2689164.1618160085%40sss.pgh.pa.us

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b1df6b696b759f00ebbf02e6de64e259d4be5785

Modified Files
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src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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