Avoid update conflict out serialization anomalies.
authorPeter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:09:47 +0000 (10:09 -0700)
committerPeter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:09:47 +0000 (10:09 -0700)
commit5940ffb221316ab73e6fdc780dfe9a07d4221ebb
treeca2a7080199941d1fcfda5393c2884c26a63e77a
parentd9fa17aa7c34dea66ce64da6fb4c643e75ba452c
Avoid update conflict out serialization anomalies.

SSI's HeapCheckForSerializableConflictOut() test failed to correctly
handle conditions involving a concurrently inserted tuple which is later
concurrently updated by a separate transaction .  A SELECT statement
that called HeapCheckForSerializableConflictOut() could end up using the
same XID (updater's XID) for both the original tuple, and the successor
tuple, missing the XID of the xact that created the original tuple
entirely.  This only happened when neither tuple from the chain was
visible to the transaction's MVCC snapshot.

The observable symptoms of this bug were subtle.  A pair of transactions
could commit, with the later transaction failing to observe the effects
of the earlier transaction (because of the confusion created by the
update to the non-visible row).  This bug dates all the way back to
commit dafaa3ef, which added SSI.

To fix, make sure that we check the xmin of concurrently inserted tuples
that happen to also have been updated concurrently.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reported-By: Kyle Kingsbury
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/db7b729d-0226-d162-a126-8a8ab2dc4443@jepsen.io
Backpatch: All supported versions
src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
src/test/isolation/expected/update-conflict-out.out [new file with mode: 0644]
src/test/isolation/isolation_schedule
src/test/isolation/specs/update-conflict-out.spec [new file with mode: 0644]