Thread: pgsql-server: Rearrange order of operations in heap_drop_with_catalog

pgsql-server: Rearrange order of operations in heap_drop_with_catalog

From
tgl@svr1.postgresql.org (Tom Lane)
Date:
Log Message:
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Rearrange order of operations in heap_drop_with_catalog and index_drop
so that we close and flush the doomed relation's relcache entry before
we start to delete the underlying catalog rows, rather than afterwards.
For awhile yesterday I thought that an unexpected relcache entry rebuild
partway through this sequence might explain the infrequent parallel
regression failures we were chasing.  It doesn't, mainly because there's
no CommandCounterIncrement in the sequence and so the deletions aren't
"really" done yet.  But it sure seems like trouble waiting to happen.

Modified Files:
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    pgsql-server/src/backend/catalog:
        heap.c (r1.272 -> r1.273)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/catalog/heap.c.diff?r1=1.272&r2=1.273)
        index.c (r1.235 -> r1.236)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/catalog/index.c.diff?r1=1.235&r2=1.236)
    pgsql-server/src/backend/commands:
        tablecmds.c (r1.126 -> r1.127)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c.diff?r1=1.126&r2=1.127)
    pgsql-server/src/include/catalog:
        heap.h (r1.68 -> r1.69)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/include/catalog/heap.h.diff?r1=1.68&r2=1.69)