pgsql: Add defenses against pre-crash files to BufFileOpenShared().

Started by Andres Freundover 8 years ago1 messagescomitters
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#1Andres Freund
andres@anarazel.de

Add defenses against pre-crash files to BufFileOpenShared().

Crash restarts currently don't clean up temporary files, as a debugging aid.
If a left-over file happens to have the same name as a segment file we're
trying to create, we'll just truncate and reuse it, but there is a problem:
BufFileOpenShared() determines how many segment files exist by trying to open
.0, .1, .2, ... until it finds no more files. It might be confused by a junk
file that has the next segment number. To defend against that, make sure we
always create a gap after the end file by unlinking the following name if it
exists. Also make it an error to try to open a BufFile that doesn't exist
(has no segment 0), so as not to encourage the development of client code
that depends on an interface that we can't reliably provide.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: /messages/by-id/CAEepm=2jhCbC_GFQJaaDhWxLB4EXtT3vVd5czuRNaqF5CWSTog@mail.gmail.com

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master

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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/923e8dee88ada071fe41541e83f121ead4baf7f8

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src/backend/storage/file/buffile.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)