ExecuteTruncate quirk: expects a unique list of relations

Started by Nikhilsover 17 years ago2 messages
#1Nikhils
nikkhils@gmail.com

Hi,

Consider this simple case:

postgres=# TRUNCATE foo, foo;
ERROR: cannot TRUNCATE "foo" because it is being used by active queries in
this session

The above occurs because the ExecuteTruncate() function invokes
truncate_check_rel() in a loop. Since the same table name appears twice, the
rd_refcnt for table "foo" is bumped up to 2, causing the above failure.

We might want to add a step to ExecuteTruncate(), or whatever calls it, to
make the list unique.

Regards,
Nikhils
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#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Nikhils (#1)
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Re: ExecuteTruncate quirk: expects a unique list of relations

Nikhils wrote:

Hi,

Consider this simple case:

postgres=# TRUNCATE foo, foo;
ERROR: cannot TRUNCATE "foo" because it is being used by active queries in
this session

The above occurs because the ExecuteTruncate() function invokes
truncate_check_rel() in a loop. Since the same table name appears twice, the
rd_refcnt for table "foo" is bumped up to 2, causing the above failure.

We might want to add a step to ExecuteTruncate(), or whatever calls it, to
make the list unique.

Fixed with attached, applied patch. I didn't see any other cases that
need fixing; LOCK foo, foo already works fine.

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Index: src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c,v
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diff -c -c -r1.259 tablecmds.c
*** src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c	19 Jun 2008 00:46:04 -0000	1.259
--- src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c	16 Jul 2008 16:35:28 -0000
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*** 762,767 ****
--- 762,770 ----
  	ResultRelInfo *resultRelInfo;
  	ListCell   *cell;
  
+ 	/* make list unique */
+ 	stmt->relations = list_union(NIL, stmt->relations);
+ 
  	/*
  	 * Open, exclusive-lock, and check all the explicitly-specified relations
  	 */