Hi hackers,
PostgreSQL hit the following assertion during error cleanup, after being
OOM in dsa_allocate0():
void dshash_detach(dshash_table *hash_table) {
ASSERT_NO_PARTITION_LOCKS_HELD_BY_ME(hash_table);
called from pgstat_shutdown_hook(), called from shmem_exit(), called
from proc_exit(), called from the exception handler.
The partition locks got previously acquired by
AutoVacWorkerMain() pgstat_report_autovac()
pgstat_get_entry_ref_locked() pgstat_get_entry_ref()
dshash_find_or_insert() resize() resize() locks all partitions so the
hash table can safely be resized. Then it calls dsa_allocate0(). If
dsa_allocate0() fails to allocate, it errors out. The exception handler
calls proc_exit() which normally calls LWLockReleaseAll() via
AbortTransaction() but only if there's an active transaction. However,
pgstat_report_autovac() runs before a transaction got started and hence
LWLockReleaseAll() doesn't run before pgstat_shutdown_hook() is called.
See attached patch for an attempt to fix this issue.
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David Geier
(ServiceNow)