mirror of https://github.com/postgres/postgres
replorigin_drop() misunderstood the API for condition variables: it
had ConditionVariablePrepareToSleep and ConditionVariableCancelSleep
inside its test-and-sleep loop, rather than outside the loop as
intended. The net effect is a narrow race-condition window wherein,
if the process using a replication slot releases it immediately after
replorigin_drop() releases the ReplicationOriginLock, replorigin_drop()
would get into the condition variable's wait list too late and then
wait indefinitely for a signal that won't come.
Because there's a different CV for each replication slot, we can't
just move the ConditionVariablePrepareToSleep call to above the
test-and-sleep loop. What we can do, in the wake of commit 13db3b936
,
is drop the ConditionVariablePrepareToSleep call entirely. This fix
depends on that commit because (at least in principle) the slot matching
the target replication origin might move around, so that once in a blue
moon successive loop iterations might involve different CVs. We can now
cope with such a scenario, at the cost of an extra trip through the
retry loop.
(There are ways we could fix this bug without depending on that commit,
but they're all a lot more complicated than this way.)
While at it, upgrade the rather skimpy comments in this function.
Back-patch to v10 where this code came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19947.1515455433@sss.pgh.pa.us
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