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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Missing dependency tracking for TableFunc nodes
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:36:54 -0500
Message-ID: <14155.1573767414@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191114213124.i6xwx24y26iklzds@development>
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Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 08:37:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I concur with Tomas' suspicion that this must be a race condition
>> during DROP STATISTICS.  If we're going to allow people to do that
>> separately from dropping the table(s), there has to be some kind of
>> locking around it, and it sounds like there's not :-(

> I think the right thing to do is simply acquire AE lock on the relation
> in RemoveStatisticsById, per the attached patch. It's possible we'll
> need to do something more complicated once join stats are added, but
> for now this should be enough (and backpatchable).

Hm.  No, it's not enough, unless you add more logic to deal with the
possibility that the stats object is gone by the time you have the
table lock.  Consider e.g. two concurrent DROP STATISTICS commands,
or a statistics drop that's cascading from something like a drop
of a relevant function and so has no earlier table lock.

			regards, tom lane





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