Allow replication slots to be dropped in single-user mode

Starting with commit 9915de6c1cb2, replication slot drop uses a
condition variable sleep to wait until the current user of the slot goes
away.  This is more user friendly than the previous behavior of erroring
out if the slot is in use, but it fails with a not-for-user-consumption
error message in single-user mode; plus, if you're using single-user
mode because you don't want to start the server in the regular mode
(say, disk is full and WAL won't recycle because of the slot), it's
inconvenient.

Fix by skipping the cond variable sleep in single-user mode, since
there can't be anybody to wait for anyway.

Reported-by: tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3b2f809f-326c-38dd-7a9e-897f957a4eb1@enterprisedb.com

diff --git a/src/backend/replication/slot.c b/src/backend/replication/slot.c
index cf5baf686ee8dc205b22cd794e9f968b522f1f96..bb9a24ec08dc15f9719dccfb816088a180881afc 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/replication/slot.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/slot.c
@@ -351,20 +351,28 @@ retry:
                if (s->in_use && strcmp(name, NameStr(s->data.name)) == 0)
                {
                        /*
-                        * This is the slot we want.  We don't know yet if it's active, so
-                        * get ready to sleep on it in case it is.  (We may end up not
-                        * sleeping, but we don't want to do this while holding the
-                        * spinlock.)
+                        * This is the slot we want; check if it's active under some other
+                        * process.  In single user mode, we don't need this check.
                         */
-                       ConditionVariablePrepareToSleep(&s->active_cv);
+                       if (IsUnderPostmaster)
+                       {
+                               /*
+                                * Get ready to sleep on it in case it is active.  (We may end
+                                * up not sleeping, but we don't want to do this while holding
+                                * the spinlock.)
+                                */
+                               ConditionVariablePrepareToSleep(&s->active_cv);
 
-                       SpinLockAcquire(&s->mutex);
+                               SpinLockAcquire(&s->mutex);
 
-                       active_pid = s->active_pid;
-                       if (active_pid == 0)
-                               active_pid = s->active_pid = MyProcPid;
+                               active_pid = s->active_pid;
+                               if (active_pid == 0)
+                                       active_pid = s->active_pid = MyProcPid;
 
-                       SpinLockRelease(&s->mutex);
+                               SpinLockRelease(&s->mutex);
+                       }
+                       else
+                               active_pid = MyProcPid;
                        slot = s;
 
                        break;