Be more careful to preserve consistency of a tuplestore.
Several places in tuplestore.c would leave the tuplestore data
structure effectively corrupt if some subroutine were to throw
an error. Notably, if WRITETUP() failed after some number of
successful calls within dumptuples(), the tuplestore would
contain some memtuples pointers that were apparently live
entries but in fact pointed to pfree'd chunks.
In most cases this sort of thing is fine because transaction
abort cleanup is not too picky about the contents of memory that
it's going to throw away anyway. There's at least one exception
though: if a Portal has a holdStore, we're going to call
tuplestore_end() on that, even during transaction abort.
So it's not cool if that tuplestore is corrupt, and that means
tuplestore.c has to be more careful.
This oversight demonstrably leads to crashes in v15 and before,
if a holdable cursor fails to persist its data due to an undersized
temp_file_limit setting. Very possibly the same thing can happen in
v16 and v17 as well, though the specific test case submitted failed
to fail there (cf. 095555daf). The failure is accidentally dodged
as of v18 because 590b045c3 got rid of tuplestore_end's retail tuple
deletion loop. Still, it seems unwise to permit tuplestores to become
internally inconsistent in any branch, so I've applied the same fix
across the board.
Since the known test case for this is rather expensive and doesn't
fail in recent branches, I've omitted it.
Bug: #19438
Reported-by: Dmitriy Kuzmin <kuzmin.db4@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19438-9d37b179c56d43aa@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
Branch
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REL_14_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7cd23aad2a7aeeac276019e2f831313c75a8be2a
Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/sort/tuplestore.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
