pgsql: Avoid dangling pointer to relation name in RLS code path in DoCo

Started by Tom Laneover 9 years ago1 messagescomitters
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#1Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

Avoid dangling pointer to relation name in RLS code path in DoCopy().

With RLS active, "COPY tab TO ..." failed under -DRELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE,
and would sometimes fail without that, because it used the relation name
directly from the relcache as part of the parsetree it's building. That
becomes a potentially-dangling pointer as soon as the relcache entry is
closed, a bit further down. Typical symptom if the relcache entry chanced
to get cleared would be "relation does not exist" error with a garbage
relation name, or possibly a core dump; but if you were really truly
unlucky, the COPY might copy from the wrong table.

Per report from Andrew Dunstan that regression tests fail with
-DRELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE. The core tests now pass for me (but have
not tried "make check-world" yet).

Discussion: /messages/by-id/7b52f900-0579-cda9-ae2e-de5da17090e6@2ndQuadrant.com

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a8df75b0a470f477dad75a7408e429e10c13fc07

Modified Files
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src/backend/commands/copy.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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