Fix uninitialized access to InitialRunningXacts during decoding.
In commit 272248a0c, we introduced an InitialRunningXacts array to
remember transactions and subtransactions that were running when the
xl_running_xacts record that we decoded was written. This array was
allocated in the snapshot builder memory context after we restore
serialized snapshot but we forgot to reset the array while freeing the
builder memory context. So, the next time when we start decoding in the
same session where we don't restore any serialized snapshot, we ended up
using the uninitialized array and that can lead to unpredictable behavior.
This problem doesn't exist in HEAD as instead of using
InitialRunningXacts, we added the list of transaction IDs and
sub-transaction IDs, that have modified catalogs and are running during
snapshot serialization, to the serialized snapshot (see commit 7f13ac8123).
Reported-by: Maxim Orlov
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Maxim Orlov
Backpatch-through: 11
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACG=ezZoz_KG+Ryh9MrU_g5e0HiVoHocEvqFF=NRrhrwKmEQJQ@mail.gmail.com
Branch
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REL_12_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/aa9d916f671de1decdc3978b952ed0ab2670d2ed
Modified Files
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src/backend/replication/logical/snapbuild.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)