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    Fix SPI's handling of errors during transaction commit. · 60465188
    Tom Lane authored
    SPI_commit previously left it up to the caller to recover from any error
    occurring during commit.  Since that's complicated and requires use of
    low-level xact.c facilities, it's not too surprising that no caller got
    it right.  Let's move the responsibility for cleanup into spi.c.  Doing
    that requires redefining SPI_commit as starting a new transaction, so
    that it becomes equivalent to SPI_commit_and_chain except that you get
    default transaction characteristics instead of preserving the prior
    transaction's characteristics.  We can make this pretty transparent
    API-wise by redefining SPI_start_transaction() as a no-op.  Callers
    that expect to do something in between might be surprised, but
    available evidence is that no callers do so.
    
    Having made that API redefinition, we can fix this mess by having
    SPI_commit[_and_chain] trap errors and start a new, clean transaction
    before re-throwing the error.  Likewise for SPI_rollback[_and_chain].
    Some cleanup is also needed in AtEOXact_SPI, which was nowhere near
    smart enough to deal with SPI contexts nested inside a committing
    context.
    
    While plperl and pltcl need no changes beyond removing their now-useless
    SPI_start_transaction() calls, plpython needs some more work because it
    hadn't gotten the memo about catching commit/rollback errors in the
    first place.  Such an error resulted in longjmp'ing out of the Python
    interpreter, which leaks Python stack entries at present and is reported
    to crash Python 3.11 altogether.  Add the missing logic to catch such
    errors and convert them into Python exceptions.
    
    This is a back-patch of commit 2e517818f.  That's now aged long enough
    to reduce the concerns about whether it will break something, and we
    do need to ensure that supported branches will work with Python 3.11.
    
    Peter Eisentraut and Tom Lane
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3375ffd8-d71c-2565-e348-a597d6e739e3@enterprisedb.com
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17416-ed8fe5d7213d6c25@postgresql.org
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