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Defer restoration of libraries in parallel workers.
authorThomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 02:02:56 +0000 (14:02 +1200)
committerThomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 02:21:32 +0000 (14:21 +1200)
commit9d178fb928040f1a5ab5b566f1ec76d7ac554587
tree2fcd77f89d2352b013920712bf2b76fa13b0ffdd
parent6449616419c59c3223b3c4f731cefa3d77fac567
Defer restoration of libraries in parallel workers.

Several users of extensions complained of crashes in parallel workers
that turned out to be due to syscache access from their _PG_init()
functions.  Reorder the initialization of parallel workers so that
libraries are restored after the caches are initialized, and inside a
transaction.

This was reported in bug #15350 and elsewhere.  We don't consider it
to be a bug: extensions shouldn't do that, because then they can't be
used in shared_preload_libraries.  However, it's a fairly obscure
hazard and these extensions worked in practice before parallel query
came along.  So let's make it work.  Later commits might add a warning
message and eventually an error.

Back-patch to 9.6, where parallel query landed.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Reported-by: Kieran McCusker, Jimmy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153512195228.1489.8545997741965926448%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
src/backend/access/transam/parallel.c