Fix MVCC bug with prepared xact with subxacts on standby
commitcbfbda78413a5b2f4807e029407dcc98a0e63162
authorHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:06:32 +0000 (27 21:06 +0300)
committerHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:09:58 +0000 (27 21:09 +0300)
treee09068019ad2bf82bb6d93aab267385dd24bef42
parentecbf6ac51df27275fb0db493bf163ef98ac00c6a
Fix MVCC bug with prepared xact with subxacts on standby

We did not recover the subtransaction IDs of prepared transactions
when starting a hot standby from a shutdown checkpoint. As a result,
such subtransactions were considered as aborted, rather than
in-progress. That would lead to hint bits being set incorrectly, and
the subtransactions suddenly becoming visible to old snapshots when
the prepared transaction was committed.

To fix, update pg_subtrans with prepared transactions's subxids when
starting hot standby from a shutdown checkpoint. The snapshots taken
from that state need to be marked as "suboverflowed", so that we also
check the pg_subtrans.

Backport to all supported versions.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6b852e98-2d49-4ca1-9e95-db419a2696e0@iki.fi
src/backend/access/transam/twophase.c
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
src/backend/storage/ipc/procarray.c
src/backend/storage/ipc/standby.c
src/include/storage/standby.h
src/test/recovery/t/009_twophase.pl
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list