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Tom Lane	3085993052	Repair incorrect handling of AfterTriggerSharedData.ats_modifiedcols. This patch fixes two distinct errors that both ultimately trace to commit `71d60e2aa`, which added the ats_modifiedcols field. The more severe error is that ats_modifiedcols wasn't accounted for in afterTriggerAddEvent's scanning loop that looks for a pre-existing duplicate AfterTriggerSharedData. Thus, a new event could be incorrectly matched to an AfterTriggerSharedData that has a different value of ats_modifiedcols, resulting in the wrong tg_updatedcols bitmap getting passed to the trigger whenever it finally gets fired. We'd not noticed because (a) few triggers consult tg_updatedcols, and (b) we had no tests exercising a case where such a trigger was called as an AFTER trigger. In the test case added by this commit, contrib/lo's trigger fails to remove a large object when expected because (without this fix) it thinks the LO OID column hasn't changed. The other problem was introduced by commit `ce5aaea8c`, which copied the modified-columns bitmap into trigger-related storage. It made a copy for every trigger event, whereas what we really want is to make a new copy only when we make a new AfterTriggerSharedData entry. (We could imagine adding extra logic to reduce the number of bitmap copies still more, but it doesn't look worthwhile at the moment.) In a simple test of an UPDATE of 10000000 rows with a single AFTER trigger, this thinko roughly tripled the amount of memory consumed by the pending-triggers data structures, from 160446744 to 480443440 bytes. Fixing the first problem requires introducing a bms_equal() call into afterTriggerAddEvent's scanning loop, which is slightly annoying from a speed perspective. However, getting rid of the excessive bms_copy() calls from the second problem balances that out; overall speed of trigger operations is the same or slightly better, in my tests. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3496294.1737501591@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 13	11 months ago
Peter Eisentraut	71d60e2aa0	Add tg_updatedcols to TriggerData This allows a trigger function to determine for an UPDATE trigger which columns were actually updated. This allows some optimizations in generic trigger functions such as lo_manage and tsvector_update_trigger. Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/11c5f156-67a9-0fb5-8200-2a8018eb2e0c@2ndquadrant.com	6 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	4cb89d8306	lo: Add test suite Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>	8 years ago

Tom Lane

Repair incorrect handling of AfterTriggerSharedData.ats_modifiedcols.

This patch fixes two distinct errors that both ultimately trace
to commit 71d60e2aa, which added the ats_modifiedcols field.

The more severe error is that ats_modifiedcols wasn't accounted for
in afterTriggerAddEvent's scanning loop that looks for a pre-existing
duplicate AfterTriggerSharedData.  Thus, a new event could be
incorrectly matched to an AfterTriggerSharedData that has a different
value of ats_modifiedcols, resulting in the wrong tg_updatedcols
bitmap getting passed to the trigger whenever it finally gets fired.
We'd not noticed because (a) few triggers consult tg_updatedcols,
and (b) we had no tests exercising a case where such a trigger was
called as an AFTER trigger.  In the test case added by this commit,
contrib/lo's trigger fails to remove a large object when expected
because (without this fix) it thinks the LO OID column hasn't changed.

The other problem was introduced by commit ce5aaea8c, which copied the
modified-columns bitmap into trigger-related storage.  It made a copy
for every trigger event, whereas what we really want is to make a new
copy only when we make a new AfterTriggerSharedData entry.  (We could
imagine adding extra logic to reduce the number of bitmap copies still
more, but it doesn't look worthwhile at the moment.)  In a simple test
of an UPDATE of 10000000 rows with a single AFTER trigger, this thinko
roughly tripled the amount of memory consumed by the pending-triggers
data structures, from 160446744 to 480443440 bytes.

Fixing the first problem requires introducing a bms_equal() call into
afterTriggerAddEvent's scanning loop, which is slightly annoying from
a speed perspective.  However, getting rid of the excessive bms_copy()
calls from the second problem balances that out; overall speed of
trigger operations is the same or slightly better, in my tests.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3496294.1737501591@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 13

11 months ago

Peter Eisentraut

71d60e2aa0

Add tg_updatedcols to TriggerData

This allows a trigger function to determine for an UPDATE trigger
which columns were actually updated.  This allows some optimizations
in generic trigger functions such as lo_manage and
tsvector_update_trigger.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/11c5f156-67a9-0fb5-8200-2a8018eb2e0c@2ndquadrant.com

6 years ago

Peter Eisentraut

4cb89d8306

lo: Add test suite

Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>

8 years ago

3 Commits (0c67dbcc4e39e160bc5c9d7db3b3f011292d5a85)