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From Dilip Kumar
Subject Re: pgsql: pgstat: Bring up pgstat in BaseInit() to fix uninitialized use o
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Msg-id CAFiTN-uB+es4B5vsYFQ1hxNOfTfWCxDwG4xCwyRFda9ooG4BaA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: pgsql: pgstat: Bring up pgstat in BaseInit() to fix uninitialized use o  (Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 1:13 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 3:16 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 11:38 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 7:39 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:47 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 4:37 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The apply worker registers SharedFileSetDeleteOnProcExit() when
> > > > > > creating a file set to serialize the changes. When it raises an error
> > > > > > due to conflict during applying the change, the callback eventually
> > > > > > reports the temp file statistics but pgstat already shut down,
> > > > > > resulting in this assertion failure.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I think we can try to fix this by registering to clean up these files
> > > > > via before_shmem_exit() as done by Andres in commit 675c945394.
> > > > > Similar to that commit, we can change the function name
> > > > > SharedFileSetDeleteOnProcExit to SharedFileSetDeleteOnShmExit and
> > > > > register it via before_shmem_exit() instead of on_proc_exit(). Can you
> > > > > try that and see if it fixes the issue for you unless you have better
> > > > > ideas to try out?
> > > >
> > > > It seems to me that moving the shared fileset cleanup to
> > > > before_shmem_exit() is the right approach to fix this problem. The
> > > > issue is fixed by the attached patch.
> > >
> > > +1, the fix makes sense to me.
> > >
> >
> > I have also tested and fix works for me. The fix works because
> > pgstat_initialize() is called before we register clean up in
> > SharedFileSetInit(). I am not sure if we need an Assert to ensure that
> > and if so how we can do that? Any suggestions?
>
> I think that the assertion added by ee3f8d3d3ae ensures that
> pgstat_initialize() is callbed before the callback for fileset cleanup
> is registered, no?

Right, it ensures that callback for fileset, is called after
pgstat_initialize() and before pgstat_shutdown.

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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
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