Commit be72b9c3 authored by Alvaro Herrera's avatar Alvaro Herrera

Fix autovacuum work item error handling

In autovacuum's "work item" processing, a few strings were allocated in
the current transaction's memory context, which goes away during error
handling; if an error happened during execution of the work item, the
pfree() calls to clean up afterwards would try to release already-released
memory, possibly leading to a crash.  In branch master, this was already
fixed by commit 335f3d04, so backpatch that to REL_10_STABLE to fix
the problem there too.

As a secondary problem, verify that the autovacuum worker is connected
to the right database for each work item; otherwise some items would be
discarded by workers in other databases.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171014035732.GB31726@telsasoft.com
parent 77954f99
......@@ -2531,6 +2531,8 @@ deleted:
continue;
if (workitem->avw_active)
continue;
if (workitem->avw_database != MyDatabaseId)
continue;
/* claim this one, and release lock while performing it */
workitem->avw_active = true;
......@@ -2606,9 +2608,7 @@ perform_work_item(AutoVacuumWorkItem *workitem)
/*
* Save the relation name for a possible error message, to avoid a catalog
* lookup in case of an error. If any of these return NULL, then the
* relation has been dropped since last we checked; skip it. Note: they
* must live in a long-lived memory context because we call vacuum and
* analyze in different transactions.
* relation has been dropped since last we checked; skip it.
*/
Assert(CurrentMemoryContext == AutovacMemCxt);
......
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