From f77e6ba90d687c38532f2f3703d191e067f7e577 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiko Sawada Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:22:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH v2] Fix logical decoding of empty prepared transactions. A two-phase transaction that is assigned an XID but produces no change to be decoded -- for example, one that only acquires row locks via SELECT ... FOR SHARE -- has no base snapshot in the reorder buffer. ReorderBufferReplay() already skips such a transaction at PREPARE time and never invokes the begin_prepare/change/prepare callbacks for it, but ReorderBufferFinishPrepared() still called the commit_prepared (or rollback_prepared) callback. As a result a spurious COMMIT/ROLLBACK PREPARED was sent to the output plugin with no preceding PREPARE. For the built-in subscriber this breaks replication (the apply worker fails to find the prepared transaction), and test_decoding could even crash. Fix this by detecting an empty transaction (base_snapshot == NULL) in ReorderBufferFinishPrepared() and cleaning it up without invoking the commit/rollback prepared callbacks, mirroring the existing empty transaction handling in ReorderBufferReplay(). On master and PG18, commit 072ee847ad4 changed ReorderBufferPrepare() to send the prepare whenever it had not already been sent, which also fires for empty transactions and emits a spurious PREPARE. On those branches ReorderBufferPrepare() is therefore additionally guarded with base_snapshot != NULL. This guard and the Assert(!rbtxn_sent_prepare()) added in ReorderBufferFinishPrepared(), are not necessary on 17 and earlier: there ReorderBufferPrepare() only sends a prepare for concurrently-aborted transactions (which never applies to an empty transaction) and the RBTXN_SENT_PREPARE flag does not exist. Back-patch to 14, where decoding of two-phase transactions was introduced. Bug: 19556 Reported-by: Alexander Kozhemyakin Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19556-daa6d7ea65054d48@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 14 (cherry picked from commit 7090da44930474fe39f0976b343ab02874ef6db8) --- contrib/test_decoding/expected/twophase.out | 25 +++++++++++++++++++ contrib/test_decoding/sql/twophase.sql | 12 +++++++++ .../replication/logical/reorderbuffer.c | 18 +++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+) diff --git a/contrib/test_decoding/expected/twophase.out b/contrib/test_decoding/expected/twophase.out index 12e2e3a0ffe..a572230c72d 100644 --- a/contrib/test_decoding/expected/twophase.out +++ b/contrib/test_decoding/expected/twophase.out @@ -224,6 +224,31 @@ SELECT data FROM pg_logical_slot_get_changes('regression_slot', NULL, NULL, 'inc COMMIT PREPARED 'test_toast_table_access' (1 row) +-- Test that an empty prepared transaction should not be decoded, whether it +-- is committed or rolled back. +BEGIN; +SELECT * FROM test_prepared1 WHERE id = 1 FOR SHARE; + id | data +----+------ + 1 | +(1 row) + +PREPARE TRANSACTION 'test_empty_transaction'; +COMMIT PREPARED 'test_empty_transaction'; +BEGIN; +SELECT * FROM test_prepared1 WHERE id = 1 FOR SHARE; + id | data +----+------ + 1 | +(1 row) + +PREPARE TRANSACTION 'test_empty_transaction'; +ROLLBACK PREPARED 'test_empty_transaction'; +SELECT data FROM pg_logical_slot_get_changes('regression_slot', NULL, NULL, 'include-xids', '0', 'skip-empty-xacts', '1'); + data +------ +(0 rows) + -- Test 8: -- cleanup and make sure results are also empty DROP TABLE test_prepared1; diff --git a/contrib/test_decoding/sql/twophase.sql b/contrib/test_decoding/sql/twophase.sql index e3ea45539cc..44c3f7089ae 100644 --- a/contrib/test_decoding/sql/twophase.sql +++ b/contrib/test_decoding/sql/twophase.sql @@ -122,6 +122,18 @@ COMMIT PREPARED 'test_toast_table_access'; -- consume commit prepared SELECT data FROM pg_logical_slot_get_changes('regression_slot', NULL, NULL, 'include-xids', '0', 'skip-empty-xacts', '1', 'stream-changes', '1'); +-- Test that an empty prepared transaction should not be decoded, whether it +-- is committed or rolled back. +BEGIN; +SELECT * FROM test_prepared1 WHERE id = 1 FOR SHARE; +PREPARE TRANSACTION 'test_empty_transaction'; +COMMIT PREPARED 'test_empty_transaction'; +BEGIN; +SELECT * FROM test_prepared1 WHERE id = 1 FOR SHARE; +PREPARE TRANSACTION 'test_empty_transaction'; +ROLLBACK PREPARED 'test_empty_transaction'; +SELECT data FROM pg_logical_slot_get_changes('regression_slot', NULL, NULL, 'include-xids', '0', 'skip-empty-xacts', '1'); + -- Test 8: -- cleanup and make sure results are also empty DROP TABLE test_prepared1; diff --git a/src/backend/replication/logical/reorderbuffer.c b/src/backend/replication/logical/reorderbuffer.c index bdcd428894f..e6e14c5fb02 100644 --- a/src/backend/replication/logical/reorderbuffer.c +++ b/src/backend/replication/logical/reorderbuffer.c @@ -2861,6 +2861,24 @@ ReorderBufferFinishPrepared(ReorderBuffer *rb, TransactionId xid, txn->commit_time, txn->origin_id, txn->origin_lsn); } + /* + * If this transaction has no snapshot, it didn't make any changes to the + * database, so there's nothing to decode. Note that + * ReorderBufferCommitChild will have transferred any snapshots from + * subtransactions if there were any. + */ + if (txn->base_snapshot == NULL) + { + Assert(txn->ninvalidations == 0); + + /* + * Removing this txn before a commit might result in the computation + * of an incorrect restart_lsn. See SnapBuildProcessRunningXacts. + */ + ReorderBufferCleanupTXN(rb, txn); + return; + } + txn->final_lsn = commit_lsn; txn->end_lsn = end_lsn; txn->commit_time = commit_time; -- 2.54.0