elog(ERROR, "EvalPlanQual: t_xmin is uncommitted ?!") fixed

From: Vadim Mikheev <vadim(at)krs(dot)ru>
To: PostgreSQL Developers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Cc: Mark Wright <mwright(at)pro-ns(dot)net>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Subject: elog(ERROR, "EvalPlanQual: t_xmin is uncommitted ?!") fixed
Date: 1999-06-10 14:52:51
Message-ID: 375FD143.312EB031@krs.ru
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...as well as another bug described below.
So, Mark, you can use select order by for update now,
but be aware that such queries may return unordered
data if sort-keys will be changed by concurrent xactions.

My hands are mostly away from sources now, though I still
get Assert in vacuum (FreeBSD 2.2.6) when run Hiroshi test.

Vadim

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1. Fix for elog(ERROR, "EvalPlanQual: t_xmin is uncommitted ?!")
and possibly for other cases too:

DO NOT cache status of transaction in unknown state
(i.e. non-committed and non-aborted ones)

Example:
T1 reads row updated/inserted by running T2 and cache T2 status.
T2 commits.
Now T1 reads a row updated by T2 and with HEAP_XMAX_COMMITTED
in t_infomask (so cached T2 status is not changed).
Now T1 EvalPlanQual gets updated row version without HEAP_XMIN_COMMITTED
-> TransactionIdDidCommit(t_xmin) and TransactionIdDidAbort(t_xmin)
return FALSE and T2 decides that t_xmin is not committed and gets
ERROR above.

It's too late to find more smart way to handle such cases and so
I just changed xact status caching and got rid TransactionIdFlushCache()
from code.

Changed: transam.c, xact.c, lmgr.c and transam.h - last three
just because of TransactionIdFlushCache() is removed.

2. heapam.c:

T1 marked a row for update. T2 waits for T1 commit/abort.
T1 commits. T3 updates the row before T2 locks row page.
Now T2 sees that new row t_xmax is different from xact id (T1)
T2 was waiting for. Old code did Assert here. New one goes to
HeapTupleSatisfiesUpdate. Obvious changes too.

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