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authorAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>2015-12-14 11:34:16 +0100
committerAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>2015-12-14 11:34:16 +0100
commitcca705a5d93446e1a9c775b94c7d5900986c0488 (patch)
tree5c724ee9ef2d1080ed5eef98bc7e926607c0b50a /src
parent2a3544960eaa114d34e5e83ab19e180c8efcd299 (diff)
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Fix bug in SetOffsetVacuumLimit() triggered by find_multixact_start() failure.
Previously, if find_multixact_start() failed, SetOffsetVacuumLimit() would install 0 into MultiXactState->offsetStopLimit if it previously succeeded. Luckily, there are no known cases where find_multixact_start() will return an error in 9.5 and above. But if it were to happen, for example due to filesystem permission issues, it'd be somewhat bad: GetNewMultiXactId() could continue allocating mxids even if close to a wraparound, or it could erroneously stop allocating mxids, even if no wraparound is looming. The wrong value would be corrected the next time SetOffsetVacuumLimit() is called, or by a restart. Reported-By: Noah Misch, although this is not his preferred fix Discussion: 20151210140450.GA22278@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.5, where the bug was introduced as part of 4f627f
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/transam/multixact.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/multixact.c b/src/backend/access/transam/multixact.c
index b66a2b60c8b..d2619bd8fd0 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/multixact.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/multixact.c
@@ -2552,6 +2552,7 @@ SetOffsetVacuumLimit(void)
bool oldestOffsetKnown = false;
bool prevOldestOffsetKnown;
MultiXactOffset offsetStopLimit = 0;
+ MultiXactOffset prevOffsetStopLimit;
/*
* NB: Have to prevent concurrent truncation, we might otherwise try to
@@ -2566,6 +2567,7 @@ SetOffsetVacuumLimit(void)
nextOffset = MultiXactState->nextOffset;
prevOldestOffsetKnown = MultiXactState->oldestOffsetKnown;
prevOldestOffset = MultiXactState->oldestOffset;
+ prevOffsetStopLimit = MultiXactState->offsetStopLimit;
Assert(MultiXactState->finishedStartup);
LWLockRelease(MultiXactGenLock);
@@ -2633,11 +2635,13 @@ SetOffsetVacuumLimit(void)
{
/*
* If we failed to get the oldest offset this time, but we have a
- * value from a previous pass through this function, use the old value
- * rather than automatically forcing it.
+ * value from a previous pass through this function, use the old
+ * values rather than automatically forcing an emergency autovacuum
+ * cycle again.
*/
oldestOffset = prevOldestOffset;
oldestOffsetKnown = true;
+ offsetStopLimit = prevOffsetStopLimit;
}
/* Install the computed values */