drop view race condition

On Sunday December 5 2004 12:54, Ed L. wrote:

There appears to be a race condition in which dropping a view and
replacing it with an identically-named table inside one transaction while
other transactions are concurrently updating the view/table causes the
following error:

WARNING: Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function f
WARNING: line 16 at SQL statement
ERROR: RelationClearRelation: relation NNN deleted while still in use

Here's basically how to reproduce this bug:

create table foo_1...
create table foo_2... (identical to foo_1)
create view foo as select * from foo_1 union all select * from foo_2;
create "do instead" rule on foo view that redirects foo inserts into
foo_2;

create table bar...
create trigger+func that inserts into foo on insert to bar;

Next, start a couple of processes that continually insert one row at a
time into bar as fast as possible (they should result in rows inserted
into foo_1);

Finally, run the following in a transaction:

begin;
drop view foo cascade;
alter table foo_2 rename to foo;
end;

Sometimes this works without error, but many times it will result in the
above error. Wratcheting up the number of processes writing to bar seems
to increase the odds of encountering the race condition error.

Ed

Forgot to mention this occurs on 7.3.4 and 7.4.6.