pgsql: Fix minor problems with non-exclusive backup cleanup. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Robert Haas
Subject pgsql: Fix minor problems with non-exclusive backup cleanup.
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Msg-id E1ihwSY-0005Qd-30@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix minor problems with non-exclusive backup cleanup.

The previous coding imagined that it could call before_shmem_exit()
when a non-exclusive backup began and then remove the previously-added
handler by calling cancel_before_shmem_exit() when that backup
ended. However, this only works provided that nothing else in the
system has registered a before_shmem_exit() hook in the interim,
because cancel_before_shmem_exit() is documented to remove a callback
only if it is the latest callback registered. It also only works
if nothing can ERROR out between the time that sessionBackupState
is reset and the time that cancel_before_shmem_exit(), which doesn't
seem to be strictly true.

To fix, leave the handler installed for the lifetime of the session,
arrange to install it just once, and teach it to quietly do nothing if
there isn't a non-exclusive backup in process.

This is a bug, but for now I'm not going to back-patch, because the
consequences are minor. It's possible to cause a spurious warning
to be generated, but that doesn't really matter. It's also possible
to trigger an assertion failure, but production builds shouldn't
have assertions enabled.

Patch by me, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier (who
preferred a different approach, but got outvoted), Fujii Masao,
and Tom Lane, and with comments by various others.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobMjnyBfNhGTKQEDbqXYE3_rXWpc4CM63fhyerNCes3mA@mail.gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/303640199d0436c5e7acdf50b837a027b5726594

Modified Files
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src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c      | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
src/backend/access/transam/xlogfuncs.c | 17 ++---------------
src/backend/replication/basebackup.c   | 16 ++--------------
src/include/access/xlog.h              |  3 ++-
4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)


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