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From: Junwang Zhao <[email protected]>
To: Amit Langote <[email protected]>
Cc: Chao Li <[email protected]>
Cc: Haibo Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Eliminating SPI / SQL from some RI triggers - take 3
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:57:46 +0800
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 5:17 PM Amit Langote <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 6:09 PM Chao Li <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mar 30, 2026, at 19:15, Amit Langote <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 1:55 PM Amit Langote <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Junwang pointed out off-list that FK tuples added to
> > >> RI_FastPathEntry.batch[] were being copied into TopTransactionContext
> > >> rather than flush_cxt, so they would accumulate until the batch was
> > >> exhausted rather than being reclaimed per flush. Fixed in
> > >> ri_FastPathBatchAdd() in 0002.
> > >>
> > >> Also added a couple of comments in trigger.c that were missing: an
> > >> Assert and explanation in RegisterAfterTriggerBatchCallback()
> > >> clarifying the query_depth >= 0 precondition, a comment at the
> > >> AfterTriggerEndQuery call site explaining why
> > >> FireAfterTriggerBatchCallbacks() must precede the query_depth
> > >> decrement and AfterTriggerFreeQuery, and brief intent comments at the
> > >> AfterTriggerFireDeferred and AfterTriggerSetState call sites.
> > >>
> > >> Plan is to commit 0001 tomorrow barring objections and let it sit for
> > >> a bit before committing 0002. Feedback on 0002, particularly on the
> > >> AfterTriggerBatchCallback mechanism in trigger.c, welcome in the
> > >> meantime.
> > >
> > > Kept looking at 0002 and found a couple of things to improve or change
> > > my thoughts about.  I decided to move the permission check from fast
> > > path cache entry creation into ri_FastPathBatchFlush(), alongside the
> > > snapshot, so that permission changes between flushes are respected
> > > rather than checked once at batch start; the check happens for every
> > > row in the SPI and non-batched fast path.  Also, improved comments in
> > > a few places to mention design decisions better.
> > >
> > > 0001 is mostly unchanged from v11 except I updated its commit message
> > > to explain why only RI_FKey_check is covered and not the action
> > > triggers as the topic has come up in previous threads about this
> > > topic.
> > >
> > > Still planning to commit 0001 tomorrow.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Thanks, Amit Langote
> > > <v12-0001-Add-fast-path-for-foreign-key-constraint-checks.patch><v12-0002-Batch-FK-rows-and-use-SK_SEARCHARRAY-for-fast-pa.patch>
> >
> > Hi Amit,
> >
> > While reading the recent commits, I saw that 0001 has been pushed as 2da86c1ef9b5446e0e22c0b6a5846293e58d98e3. However, I also just noticed a use-after-free issue in ri_LoadConstraintInfo(). It dereferences conForm after ReleaseSysCache(tup), which is unsafe. I am attaching a tiny patch to fix that.
>
> Thanks.  I noticed that too and pushed the fix an hour ago:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E1w7U6V-002H6n-0o%40gemulon.postgresql.org
>
> --
> Thanks, Amit Langote

prion is happy now, the fix works, thanks.

-- 
Regards
Junwang Zhao





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