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    Fix predicate-locking of HOT updated rows. · 1169fcf1
    Heikki Linnakangas authored
    In serializable mode, heap_hot_search_buffer() incorrectly acquired a
    predicate lock on the root tuple, not the returned tuple that satisfied
    the visibility checks. As explained in README-SSI, the predicate lock does
    not need to be copied or extended to other tuple versions, but for that to
    work, the correct, visible, tuple version must be locked in the first
    place.
    
    The original SSI commit had this bug in it, but it was fixed back in 2013,
    in commit 81fbbfe3. But unfortunately, it was reintroduced a few months
    later in commit b89e1510. Wising up from that, add a regression test
    to cover this, so that it doesn't get reintroduced again. Also, move the
    code that sets 't_self', so that it happens at the same time that the
    other HeapTuple fields are set, to make it more clear that all the code in
    the loop operate on the "current" tuple in the chain, not the root tuple.
    
    Bug spotted by Andres Freund, analysis and original fix by Thomas Munro,
    test case and some additional changes to the fix by Heikki Linnakangas.
    Backpatch to all supported versions (9.4).
    
    Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20190731210630.nqhszuktygwftjty%40alap3.anarazel.de
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