Re: potential stuck lock in SaveSlotToPath()

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: potential stuck lock in SaveSlotToPath()
Date: 2020-04-01 14:26:25
Message-ID: b1969593-6701-bacc-1d33-a86eabf1ca5b@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-03-27 08:48, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 02:16:05PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> committed and backpatched
>
> The patch committed does that in three places:
> /* rename to permanent file, fsync file and directory */
> if (rename(tmppath, path) != 0)
> {
> + LWLockRelease(&slot->io_in_progress_lock);
> ereport(elevel,
> (errcode_for_file_access(),
> errmsg("could not rename file \"%s\" to \"%s\": %m",
>
> But why do you assume that LWLockRelease() never changes errno? It
> seems to me that you should save errno before calling LWLockRelease(),
> and then restore it back before using %m in the log message, no? See
> for example the case where trace_lwlocks is set.

Good catch. How about the attached patch?

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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