Prevent GIN deleted pages from being reclaimed too early

When GIN vacuum deletes a posting tree page, it assumes that no concurrent
searchers can access it, thanks to ginStepRight() locking two pages at once.
However, since 9.4 searches can skip parts of posting trees descending from the
root.  That leads to the risk that page is deleted and reclaimed before
concurrent search can access it.

This commit prevents the risk of above by waiting for every transaction, which
might wait to reference this page, to finish.  Due to binary compatibility
we can't change GinPageOpaqueData to store corresponding transaction id.
Instead we reuse page header pd_prune_xid field, which is unused in index pages.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31a702a.14dd.166c1366ac1.Coremail.chjischj%40163.com
Author: Andrey Borodin, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 9.4

4 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/README b/src/backend/access/gin/README
index 421b5b26d5b..30c0867829e 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/gin/README
+++ b/src/backend/access/gin/README
@@ -304,12 +304,10 @@ the lock on next page has been acquired.
 The downlink is more tricky. A search descending the tree must release the
 lock on the parent page before locking the child, or it could deadlock with
 a concurrent split of the child page; a page split locks the parent, while
-already holding a lock on the child page. However, posting trees are only
-fully searched from left to right, starting from the leftmost leaf. (The
-tree-structure is only needed by insertions, to quickly find the correct
-insert location). So as long as we don't delete the leftmost page on each
-level, a search can never follow a downlink to page that's about to be
-deleted.
+already holding a lock on the child page. So, deleted page cannot be reclaimed
+immediately. Instead, we have to wait for every transaction, which might wait
+to reference this page, to finish. Corresponding processes must observe that
+the page is marked deleted and recover accordingly.
 
 The previous paragraph's reasoning only applies to searches, and only to
 posting trees. To protect from inserters following a downlink to a deleted
diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/ginutil.c b/src/backend/access/gin/ginutil.c
index 0a32182dd7f..64dd1a64860 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/gin/ginutil.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gin/ginutil.c
@@ -309,12 +309,7 @@ GinNewBuffer(Relation index)
 		 */
 		if (ConditionalLockBuffer(buffer))
 		{
-			Page		page = BufferGetPage(buffer);
-
-			if (PageIsNew(page))
-				return buffer;	/* OK to use, if never initialized */
-
-			if (GinPageIsDeleted(page))
+			if (GinPageIsRecyclable(BufferGetPage(buffer)))
 				return buffer;	/* OK to use */
 
 			LockBuffer(buffer, GIN_UNLOCK);
diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/ginvacuum.c b/src/backend/access/gin/ginvacuum.c
index bdeb0bf4f52..96609835eeb 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/gin/ginvacuum.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gin/ginvacuum.c
@@ -157,6 +157,9 @@ ginDeletePage(GinVacuumState *gvs, BlockNumber deleteBlkno, BlockNumber leftBlkn
 	page = BufferGetPage(dBuffer);
 	rightlink = GinPageGetOpaque(page)->rightlink;
 
+	/* For deleted page remember last xid which could knew its address */
+	GinPageSetDeleteXid(page, ReadNewTransactionId());
+
 	/*
 	 * Any insert which would have gone on the leaf block will now go to its
 	 * right sibling.
@@ -213,6 +216,7 @@ ginDeletePage(GinVacuumState *gvs, BlockNumber deleteBlkno, BlockNumber leftBlkn
 
 		data.parentOffset = myoff;
 		data.rightLink = GinPageGetOpaque(page)->rightlink;
+		data.deleteXid = GinPageGetDeleteXid(page);
 
 		XLogRegisterData((char *) &data, sizeof(ginxlogDeletePage));
 
@@ -732,7 +736,7 @@ ginvacuumcleanup(IndexVacuumInfo *info, IndexBulkDeleteResult *stats)
 		LockBuffer(buffer, GIN_SHARE);
 		page = (Page) BufferGetPage(buffer);
 
-		if (PageIsNew(page) || GinPageIsDeleted(page))
+		if (GinPageIsRecyclable(page))
 		{
 			Assert(blkno != GIN_ROOT_BLKNO);
 			RecordFreeIndexPage(index, blkno);
diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c b/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c
index b626a219dec..b84ecf2ab15 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c
@@ -531,6 +531,7 @@ ginRedoDeletePage(XLogReaderState *record)
 		page = BufferGetPage(dbuffer);
 		Assert(GinPageIsData(page));
 		GinPageGetOpaque(page)->flags = GIN_DELETED;
+		GinPageSetDeleteXid(page, data->deleteXid);
 		PageSetLSN(page, lsn);
 		MarkBufferDirty(dbuffer);
 	}