Transaction oddity with list partition of a list partition

From 4553aa4588a3d18aba3d0aa8d07627ff8654f436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: amit <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:07:06 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] Invalidate the parent's relcache after partition
 creation.

---
 src/backend/catalog/heap.c       |  7 ++++++-
 src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c | 13 ++++---------
 src/include/catalog/heap.h       |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/heap.c b/src/backend/catalog/heap.c
index c09c9f28a7..e5d6aecc3f 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/heap.c
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/heap.c
@@ -3230,9 +3230,12 @@ RemovePartitionKeyByRelId(Oid relid)
  * StorePartitionBound
  *		Update pg_class tuple of rel to store the partition bound and set
  *		relispartition to true
+ *
+ * Also, invalidate the parent's relcache, so that the next rebuild will load
+ * the new partition's info into its partition descriptor.
  */
 void
-StorePartitionBound(Relation rel, Node *bound)
+StorePartitionBound(Relation rel, Relation parent, Node *bound)
 {
 	Relation	classRel;
 	HeapTuple	tuple,
@@ -3273,4 +3276,6 @@ StorePartitionBound(Relation rel, Node *bound)
 	CatalogUpdateIndexes(classRel, newtuple);
 	heap_freetuple(newtuple);
 	heap_close(classRel, RowExclusiveLock);
+
+	CacheInvalidateRelcache(parent);
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
index 7a574dc50d..1c219b03dd 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
@@ -777,10 +777,11 @@ DefineRelation(CreateStmt *stmt, char relkind, Oid ownerId,
 		 * it does not return on error.
 		 */
 		check_new_partition_bound(relname, parent, bound);
-		heap_close(parent, NoLock);
 
 		/* Update the pg_class entry. */
-		StorePartitionBound(rel, bound);
+		StorePartitionBound(rel, parent, bound);
+
+		heap_close(parent, NoLock);
 
 		/*
 		 * The code that follows may also update the pg_class tuple to update
@@ -13141,7 +13142,7 @@ ATExecAttachPartition(List **wqueue, Relation rel, PartitionCmd *cmd)
 							  cmd->bound);
 
 	/* Update the pg_class entry. */
-	StorePartitionBound(attachRel, cmd->bound);
+	StorePartitionBound(attachRel, rel, cmd->bound);
 
 	/*
 	 * Generate partition constraint from the partition bound specification.
@@ -13352,12 +13353,6 @@ ATExecAttachPartition(List **wqueue, Relation rel, PartitionCmd *cmd)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Invalidate the parent's relcache so that the new partition is now
-	 * included its partition descriptor.
-	 */
-	CacheInvalidateRelcache(rel);
-
 	ObjectAddressSet(address, RelationRelationId, RelationGetRelid(attachRel));
 
 	/* keep our lock until commit */
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/heap.h b/src/include/catalog/heap.h
index 77dc1983e8..0e4262f611 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/heap.h
+++ b/src/include/catalog/heap.h
@@ -143,6 +143,6 @@ extern void StorePartitionKey(Relation rel,
 					Oid *partopclass,
 					Oid *partcollation);
 extern void RemovePartitionKeyByRelId(Oid relid);
-extern void StorePartitionBound(Relation rel, Node *bound);
+extern void StorePartitionBound(Relation rel, Relation parent, Node *bound);
 
 #endif   /* HEAP_H */
-- 
2.11.0