Fix contrib/auto_explain to not cause problems in parallel workers.
A parallel worker process should not be making any decisions of its
own about whether to auto-explain. If the parent session process
passed down flags asking for instrumentation data, do that, otherwise
not. Trying to enable instrumentation anyway leads to bugs like the
"could not find key N in shm TOC" failure reported in bug #15821
from Christian Hofstaedtler.
We can implement this cheaply by piggybacking on the existing logic
for not doing anything when we've chosen not to sample a statement.
While at it, clean up some tin-eared coding related to the sampling
feature, including an off-by-one error that meant that asking for 1.0
sampling rate didn't actually result in sampling every statement.
Although the specific case reported here only manifested in >= v11,
I believe that related misbehaviors can be demonstrated in any version
that has parallel query; and the off-by-one error is certainly there
back to 9.6 where that feature was added. So back-patch to 9.6.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15821-5eb422e980594075@postgresql.org
Branch
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REL_11_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/57e85fa2cb7e7a99306be4b62c6a547532b7e849
Modified Files
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contrib/auto_explain/auto_explain.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
