Improve objectNamesToOids() comment

Commit d31bbfb659 removed the comment at objectNamesToOids() that
there is no locking, because that commit added locking.  But to fix
all the problems, we'd still need a stronger lock.  So put the comment
back with more a detailed explanation.

Co-authored-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/bf72b82c-124d-4efa-a484-bb928e9494e4@eisentraut.org
master
Peter Eisentraut 2 weeks ago
parent 990c8db182
commit e36fa9319b
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      src/backend/catalog/aclchk.c

@ -659,6 +659,20 @@ ExecGrantStmt_oids(InternalGrant *istmt)
* objectNamesToOids * objectNamesToOids
* *
* Turn a list of object names of a given type into an Oid list. * Turn a list of object names of a given type into an Oid list.
*
* XXX This function intentionally takes only an AccessShareLock. In the face
* of concurrent DDL, we might easily latch onto an old version of an object,
* causing the GRANT or REVOKE statement to fail. But it does prevent the
* object from disappearing altogether. To do better, we would need to use a
* self-exclusive lock, perhaps ShareUpdateExclusiveLock, here and before
* *every* CatalogTupleUpdate() of a row that GRANT/REVOKE can affect.
* Besides that additional work, this could have operational costs. For
* example, it would make GRANT ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA terminate every
* autovacuum running in the schema and consume a shared lock table entry per
* table in the schema. The user-visible benefit of that additional work is
* just changing "ERROR: tuple concurrently updated" to blocking. That's not
* nothing, but it might not outweigh autovacuum termination and lock table
* consumption spikes.
*/ */
static List * static List *
objectNamesToOids(ObjectType objtype, List *objnames, bool is_grant) objectNamesToOids(ObjectType objtype, List *objnames, bool is_grant)

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