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    Fix possible cache invalidation failure in ReceiveSharedInvalidMessages. · 0f928a85
    Tom Lane authored
    Commit fad153ec modified sinval.c to reduce
    the number of calls into sinvaladt.c (which require taking a shared lock)
    by keeping a local buffer of collected-but-not-yet-processed messages.
    However, if processing of the last message in a batch resulted in a
    recursive call to ReceiveSharedInvalidMessages, we could overwrite that
    message with a new one while the outer invalidation function was still
    working on it.  This would be likely to lead to invalidation of the wrong
    cache entry, allowing subsequent processing to use stale cache data.
    The fix is just to make a local copy of each message while we're processing
    it.
    
    Spotted by Andres Freund.  Back-patch to 8.4 where the bug was introduced.
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