Make XactLockTableWait work for transactions that are not yet self-locked
XactLockTableWait assumed that its xid argument has already added itself to the lock table. That assumption led to another assumption that if locking the xid has succeeded but the xid is reported as still in progress, then the input xid must have been a subtransaction. These assumptions hold true for the original uses of this code in locking related to on-disk tuples, but they break down in logical replication slot snapshot building -- in particular, when a standby snapshot logged contains an xid that's already in ProcArray but not yet in the lock table. This leads to assertion failures that can be reproduced all the way back to 9.4, when logical decoding was introduced. To fix, change SubTransGetParent to SubTransGetTopmostTransaction which has a slightly different API: it returns the argument Xid if there is no parent, and it goes all the way to the top instead of moving up the levels one by one. Also, to avoid busy-waiting, add a 1ms sleep to give the other process time to register itself in the lock table. For consistency, change ConditionalXactLockTableWait the same way. Author: Petr Jelínek Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1B3E32D8-FCF4-40B4-AEF9-5C0E3AC57969@postgrespro.ru Reported-by: Konstantin Knizhnik Diagnosed-by: Stas Kelvich, Petr Jelínek Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Robert Haas
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