BUG #16393: PANIC: cannot abort transaction, it was already committed

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#1PG Bug reporting form
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The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference: 16393
Logged by: Andreas Seltenreich
Email address: andreas.seltenreich@credativ.de
PostgreSQL version: 11.5
Operating system: AIX
Description:

One of our customers recently experienced the following PANIC with
PostgreSQL 11.5 on AIX:

PANIC: cannot abort transaction 1234567890, it was already committed
CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function foo.bar(varchar[],…,timestamptz[]) line 5 during
exception cleanup
STATEMENT: PREPARE q1 (varchar,[...],timestamptz) AS select
foo.bar(ARRAY[$1, …], …, $101], ARRAY[$102, $103])

There is a striking similarity to BUG #15727 from 2019 where this
PANIC also occured during error handling. Archive link to the old
bug: /messages/by-id/15727-0be246e7d852d229@postgresql.org

IIUC backporting was considered but deemed unreasonable here:
/messages/by-id/20190407203315.6v3iktksr5u3bksw@alap3.anarazel.de

Backtrace below.

regards,
Andreas

(dbx) where
abort()
pq_getmsgtext()
errposition()
IPRA.$AtCleanup_Memory()
StartTransaction()
DefineSavepoint()
IPRA.$exec_stmt_block()
pl_exec.IPRA.$exec_stmt_raise.exec_stmt()
pl_exec.IPRA.$exec_stmt_raise.IPRA.$exec_stmts()
IPRA.$exec_stmt_block()
plpgsql_exec_function()
plpgsql_call_handler()
ExecInterpExpr()
ExecEvalConstraintNotNull@AF173_67()
ExecInitProjectSet()
MultiExecProcNode()
IPRA.$InitPlan()
IPRA.$ExecBuildAggTransCall()
PortalRunFetch()

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: PG Bug reporting form (#1)
Re: BUG #16393: PANIC: cannot abort transaction, it was already committed

PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:

One of our customers recently experienced the following PANIC with
PostgreSQL 11.5 on AIX:
PANIC: cannot abort transaction 1234567890, it was already committed

That's probably just a side-effect of some other problem. There's
no strong reason to think that it's the same thing as #15727.
Can you provide a reproducer by any chance?

regards, tom lane

#3Andres Freund
andres@anarazel.de
In reply to: PG Bug reporting form (#1)
Re: BUG #16393: PANIC: cannot abort transaction, it was already committed

Hi,

On 2020-04-27 09:19:05 +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:

One of our customers recently experienced the following PANIC with
PostgreSQL 11.5 on AIX:

PANIC: cannot abort transaction 1234567890, it was already committed
CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function foo.bar(varchar[],…,timestamptz[]) line 5 during
exception cleanup
STATEMENT: PREPARE q1 (varchar,[...],timestamptz) AS select
foo.bar(ARRAY[$1, …], …, $101], ARRAY[$102, $103])

There is a striking similarity to BUG #15727 from 2019 where this
PANIC also occured during error handling. Archive link to the old
bug: /messages/by-id/15727-0be246e7d852d229@postgresql.org

It doesn't immediately see that similar to me. What makes you think it
is?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

#4Andreas Seltenreich
seltenreich@gmx.de
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: BUG #16393: PANIC: cannot abort transaction, it was already committed

Tom Lane writes:

PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:

One of our customers recently experienced the following PANIC with
PostgreSQL 11.5 on AIX:
PANIC: cannot abort transaction 1234567890, it was already committed

That's probably just a side-effect of some other problem. There's
no strong reason to think that it's the same thing as #15727.
Can you provide a reproducer by any chance?

I did inquire about getting my hands on the schema or a shell to a test
instance of the database for further analysis, but it's difficult as the
system is highly guarded by our customer. I'm afraid I won't be able to
contribute more info until then.

Andres Freund writes:

On 2020-04-27 09:19:05 +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:

There is a striking similarity to BUG #15727 from 2019 where this
PANIC also occured during error handling. Archive link to the old
bug: /messages/by-id/15727-0be246e7d852d229@postgresql.org

It doesn't immediately see that similar to me. What makes you think it
is?

That was just my superficial impression after looking at recipe and
backtrace of #15727 (IIRC an error occures during error handling leading
to the same panic). I communicated to the customer that it's not clear
to me whether they are actually related but somehow I worded the bug
report with more prejudice than I intended, probably out of hope for a
quick backport fix. Your not seeing it squashed that though :-)

thanks,
Andreas