pgsql: AlterSubscription_refresh: avoid stomping on global variable - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject pgsql: AlterSubscription_refresh: avoid stomping on global variable
Date
Msg-id E1lf2hW-0003gk-Km@gemulon.postgresql.org
Whole thread Raw
List pgsql-committers
AlterSubscription_refresh: avoid stomping on global variable

This patch replaces use of the global "wrconn" variable in
AlterSubscription_refresh with a local variable of the same name, making
it consistent with other functions in subscriptioncmds.c (e.g.
DropSubscription).

The global wrconn is only meant to be used for logical apply/tablesync worker.
Abusing it this way is known to cause trouble if an apply worker
manages to do a subscription refresh, such as reported by Jeremy Finzel
and diagnosed by Andres Freund back in November 2020, at
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201111215820.qihhrz7fayu6myfi@alap3.anarazel.de

Backpatch to 10.  In branch master, also move the connection establishment
to occur outside the PG_TRY block; this way we can remove a test for NULL in
PG_FINALLY, and it also makes the code more consistent with similar code in
the same file.

Author: Peter Smith <peter.b.smith@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+Pu7Jv9L2BOEx_Z0UtJxfDevQSAUW2mJqWU+CtmDrEZVAg@mail.gmail.com

Branch
------
REL_12_STABLE

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cfebc7080c990d60183cc486861d07db9dd8808b

Modified Files
--------------
src/backend/commands/subscriptioncmds.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


pgsql-committers by date:

Previous
From: Andrew Dunstan
Date:
Subject: pgsql: Remove extraneous newlines added by perl copyright patch
Next
From: Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Subject: pgsql: Fix typo