Fix SysCacheGetAttr() to handle the case where the specified syscache has not

been initialized yet.  This can happen because there are code paths that call
SysCacheGetAttr() on a tuple originally fetched from a different syscache
(hopefully on the same catalog) than the one specified in the call.  It
doesn't seem useful or robust to try to prevent that from happening, so just
improve the function to cope instead.  Per bug#2678 from Jeff Trout.  The
specific example shown by Jeff is new in 8.1, but to be on the safe side
I'm backpatching 8.0 as well.  We could patch 7.x similarly but I think
that's probably overkill, given the lack of evidence of old bugs of this ilk.

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/cache/catcache.c b/src/backend/utils/cache/catcache.c
index 0d1ae15b39ce1e94d115b91292780ffa29fc2c78..55b9d5baf07334ada84dd0309739049d1ef8b627 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/cache/catcache.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/cache/catcache.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/catcache.c,v 1.133 2006/10/04 00:30:00 momjian Exp $
+ *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/catcache.c,v 1.134 2006/10/06 18:23:35 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ CatalogCacheInitializeCache(CatCache *cache)
        cache->cc_skey[i].sk_strategy = BTEqualStrategyNumber;
        cache->cc_skey[i].sk_subtype = InvalidOid;
 
-       CACHE4_elog(DEBUG2, "CatalogCacheInit %s %d %p",
+       CACHE4_elog(DEBUG2, "CatalogCacheInitializeCache %s %d %p",
                    cache->cc_relname,
                    i,
                    cache);
@@ -991,18 +991,20 @@ CatalogCacheInitializeCache(CatCache *cache)
 /*
  * InitCatCachePhase2 -- external interface for CatalogCacheInitializeCache
  *
- * The only reason to call this routine is to ensure that the relcache
- * has created entries for all the catalogs and indexes referenced by
- * catcaches.  Therefore, open the index too.  An exception is the indexes
- * on pg_am, which we don't use (cf. IndexScanOK).
+ * One reason to call this routine is to ensure that the relcache has
+ * created entries for all the catalogs and indexes referenced by catcaches.
+ * Therefore, provide an option to open the index as well as fixing the
+ * cache itself.  An exception is the indexes on pg_am, which we don't use
+ * (cf. IndexScanOK).
  */
 void
-InitCatCachePhase2(CatCache *cache)
+InitCatCachePhase2(CatCache *cache, bool touch_index)
 {
    if (cache->cc_tupdesc == NULL)
        CatalogCacheInitializeCache(cache);
 
-   if (cache->id != AMOID &&
+   if (touch_index &&
+       cache->id != AMOID &&
        cache->id != AMNAME)
    {
        Relation    idesc;

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/cache/syscache.c b/src/backend/utils/cache/syscache.c
index 79aba4ebc824c3f77c20c4e20dffc32a33039b35..e19fba05840bb1f5dd03156420edb61c36f18fb0 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/cache/syscache.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/cache/syscache.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/syscache.c,v 1.107 2006/10/04 00:30:00 momjian Exp $
+ *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/syscache.c,v 1.108 2006/10/06 18:23:35 tgl Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *   These routines allow the parser/planner/executor to perform
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ InitCatalogCachePhase2(void)
    Assert(CacheInitialized);
 
    for (cacheId = 0; cacheId < SysCacheSize; cacheId++)
-       InitCatCachePhase2(SysCache[cacheId]);
+       InitCatCachePhase2(SysCache[cacheId], true);
 }
 
 
@@ -773,6 +773,9 @@ SearchSysCacheExistsAttName(Oid relid, const char *attname)
  * As with heap_getattr(), if the attribute is of a pass-by-reference type
  * then a pointer into the tuple data area is returned --- the caller must
  * not modify or pfree the datum!
+ *
+ * Note: it is legal to use SysCacheGetAttr() with a cacheId referencing
+ * a different cache for the same catalog the tuple was fetched from.
  */
 Datum
 SysCacheGetAttr(int cacheId, HeapTuple tup,
@@ -781,15 +784,18 @@ SysCacheGetAttr(int cacheId, HeapTuple tup,
 {
    /*
     * We just need to get the TupleDesc out of the cache entry, and then we
-    * can apply heap_getattr().  We expect that the cache control data is
-    * currently valid --- if the caller recently fetched the tuple, then it
-    * should be.
+    * can apply heap_getattr().  Normally the cache control data is already
+    * valid (because the caller recently fetched the tuple via this same
+    * cache), but there are cases where we have to initialize the cache here.
     */
-   if (cacheId < 0 || cacheId >= SysCacheSize)
+   if (cacheId < 0 || cacheId >= SysCacheSize ||
+       !PointerIsValid(SysCache[cacheId]))
        elog(ERROR, "invalid cache id: %d", cacheId);
-   if (!PointerIsValid(SysCache[cacheId]) ||
-       !PointerIsValid(SysCache[cacheId]->cc_tupdesc))
-       elog(ERROR, "missing cache data for cache id %d", cacheId);
+   if (!PointerIsValid(SysCache[cacheId]->cc_tupdesc))
+   {
+       InitCatCachePhase2(SysCache[cacheId], false);
+       Assert(PointerIsValid(SysCache[cacheId]->cc_tupdesc));
+   }
 
    return heap_getattr(tup, attributeNumber,
                        SysCache[cacheId]->cc_tupdesc,

diff --git a/src/include/utils/catcache.h b/src/include/utils/catcache.h
index cbd6d9945a426ae6db17e803a45b117d947eafa7..c24133ab5e93715936ccc9d8354214e18ac60053 100644 (file)
--- a/src/include/utils/catcache.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/catcache.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2006, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/utils/catcache.h,v 1.62 2006/10/04 00:30:10 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/utils/catcache.h,v 1.63 2006/10/06 18:23:35 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ extern CatCache *InitCatCache(int id, Oid reloid, Oid indexoid,
             int reloidattr,
             int nkeys, const int *key,
             int nbuckets);
-extern void InitCatCachePhase2(CatCache *cache);
+extern void InitCatCachePhase2(CatCache *cache, bool touch_index);
 
 extern HeapTuple SearchCatCache(CatCache *cache,
               Datum v1, Datum v2,