Обсуждение: help needed with CREATE CONVERSION
I encountered a problem while implementing new CREATE CONVERSION. Since converion procs are dynamically invoked while doing an encoding conversion, it might fail for some reasons: (1) stale pg_conversion entry. If someone re-register that proc, the oid might be changed and the reference from pg_conversionto pg_proc becomes stale. (2) buggy conversion proc is defined by a user (3) schema search path changed. Since conversion is schema aware, if someone sets a wrong schema path, the conversion procmight not be found anymore. This is actually not a problem right now, since in this case a conversion search wouldbe performed on pg_catalog name space which should always be exist. However I am a little bit worried about this. Problem is, in any case mentioned above, an ERROR is raised and backend tries to send an error message which again raise an ERROR. As a result, backend goes into an infinite loop. I have to do some syscache searches aginst pg_proc before calling conversion proc using fmgr, since there seems no API for checking that conversion proc surely exists without throwing an ERROR. This is ugly and is not ideal IMO. Any idea? -- Tatsuo Ishii
Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes: > I encountered a problem while implementing new CREATE > CONVERSION. Since converion procs are dynamically invoked while doing > an encoding conversion, it might fail for some reasons: > (1) stale pg_conversion entry. If someone re-register that proc, the > oid might be changed and the reference from pg_conversion to > pg_proc becomes stale. This could (and should IMHO) be prevented with a dependency. > (2) buggy conversion proc is defined by a user This I think we have to be concerned about; there will always be the possibility of a failure in the conversion proc. > (3) schema search path changed. I do not see how that's an issue. The conversion proc is referred to by OID, no? > Problem is, in any case mentioned above, an ERROR is raised and > backend tries to send an error message which again raise an ERROR. As > a result, backend goes into an infinite loop. As long as we can restrict this failure to the case of a buggy conversion proc, I think the risk can be lived with. Buggy C code can cause crashes in plenty of ways ;-) regards, tom lane
Tom Lane dijo: > Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes: > > I encountered a problem while implementing new CREATE > > CONVERSION. Since converion procs are dynamically invoked while doing > > an encoding conversion, it might fail for some reasons: > > > (2) buggy conversion proc is defined by a user > > This I think we have to be concerned about; there will always be the > possibility of a failure in the conversion proc. > > > Problem is, in any case mentioned above, an ERROR is raised and > > backend tries to send an error message which again raise an ERROR. As > > a result, backend goes into an infinite loop. What about having a separate elog() category that evades the conversion stuff, so if something fails in character conversion it doesn't get called again? Some way to ``disable'' recursion in elog(). -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>) Licensee shall have no right to use the Licensed Software for productive or commercial use. (Licencia de StarOffice 6.0 beta)