Fix theoretical torn page hazard.
The original report was concerned with a possible inconsistency
between the heap and the visibility map, which I was unable to
confirm. The concern has been retracted.
However, there did seem to be a torn page hazard when using
checksums. By not setting the heap page LSN during redo, the
protections of minRecoveryPoint were bypassed. Fixed, along with a
misleading comment.
It may have been impossible to hit this problem in practice, because
it would require a page tear between the checksum and the flags, so I
am marking this as a theoretical risk. But, as discussed, it did
violate expectations about the page LSN, so it may have other
consequences.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Reported-by: Konstantin Knizhnik
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Knizhnik
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fed17dac-8cb8-4f5b-d462-1bb4908c029e@garret.ru
Backpatch-through: 11
Branch
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REL_13_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/58a45bb1d82b90e33a45b646717bf6a035256ded
Modified Files
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src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
