Fix parallel pg_dump/pg_restore for failure to create worker processes.
If we failed to fork a worker process, or create a communication pipe
for one, WaitForTerminatingWorkers would suffer an assertion failure
if assert-enabled, otherwise crash or go into an infinite loop. This
was a consequence of not accounting for the startup condition where
we've not yet forked all the workers.
The original bug was that ParallelBackupStart would set workerStatus to
WRKR_IDLE before it had successfully forked a worker. I made things
worse in commit b7b8cc0cf by not understanding the undocumented fact
that the WRKR_TERMINATED state was also meant to represent the case
where a worker hadn't been started yet: I changed enum T_WorkerStatus
so that *all* the worker slots were initially in WRKR_IDLE state. But
this wasn't any more broken in practice, since even one slot in the
wrong state would keep WaitForTerminatingWorkers from terminating.
In v10 and later, introduce an explicit T_WorkerStatus value for
worker-not-started, in hopes of preventing future oversights of the
same ilk. Before that, just document that WRKR_TERMINATED is supposed
to cover that case (partly because it wasn't actively broken, and
partly because the enum is exposed outside parallel.c in those branches,
so there's microscopically more risk involved in changing it).
In all branches, introduce a WORKER_IS_RUNNING status test macro
to hide which T_WorkerStatus values mean that, and be more careful
not to access ParallelSlot fields till we're sure they're valid.
Per report from Vignesh C, though this is my patch not his.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1Luv-E3sarR+-unz-BjchquHHyfP+YC+2FS2pt_J+wxg@mail.gmail.com
Branch
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REL_12_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0c84199f71e0bf2c192f6ec666e041fd7d9099c9
Modified Files
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src/bin/pg_dump/parallel.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
