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From Andres Freund
Subject pgsql: Fix potential assertion failure when reindexing a pg_classindex
Date
Msg-id E1hLJ3w-0001FA-D7@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Responses Re: pgsql: Fix potential assertion failure when reindexing a pg_classindex  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Fix potential assertion failure when reindexing a pg_class index.

When reindexing individual indexes on pg_class it was possible to
either trigger an assertion failure:
TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(!ReindexIsProcessingIndex(((index)->rd_id)))

That's because reindex_index() called SetReindexProcessing() - which
enables an asserts ensuring no index insertions happen into the index
- before calling RelationSetNewRelfilenode(). That not correct for
indexes on pg_class, because RelationSetNewRelfilenode() updates the
relevant pg_class row, which needs to update the indexes.

The are two reasons this wasn't noticed earlier. Firstly the bug
doesn't trigger when reindexing all of pg_class, as reindex_relation
has code "hiding" all yet-to-be-reindexed indexes. Secondly, the bug
only triggers when the the update to pg_class doesn't turn out to be a
HOT update - otherwise there's no index insertion to trigger the
bug. Most of the time there's enough space, making this bug hard to
trigger.

To fix, move RelationSetNewRelfilenode() to before the
SetReindexProcessing() (and, together with some other code, to outside
of the PG_TRY()).

To make sure the error checking intended by SetReindexProcessing() is
more robust, modify CatalogIndexInsert() to check
ReindexIsProcessingIndex() even when the update is a HOT update.

Also add a few regression tests for REINDEXing of system catalogs.

The last two improvements would have prevented some of the issues
fixed in 5c1560606dc4c from being introduced in the first place.

Reported-By: Michael Paquier
Diagnosed-By: Tom Lane and Andres Freund
Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190418011430.GA19133@paquier.xyz
Backpatch: 9.4-, the bug is present in all branches

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3dbb317d32f4f084ef7badaed8ef36f5c9b85fe6

Modified Files
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contrib/test_decoding/expected/rewrite.out |  4 +++
contrib/test_decoding/sql/rewrite.sql      |  5 ++++
src/backend/catalog/index.c                | 40 +++++++++++++++++-------------
src/backend/catalog/indexing.c             | 21 ++++++++++++++--
src/test/regress/expected/create_index.out | 18 ++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/create_index.sql      | 21 ++++++++++++++++
6 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)


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