pgsql: Properly re-initialize replication slot shared memory upon creat

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Properly re-initialize replication slot shared memory upon creat
Date: 2016-08-17 20:22:42
Message-ID: E1ba7MI-00066o-7W@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Properly re-initialize replication slot shared memory upon creation.

Slot creation did not clear all fields upon creation. After start the
memory is zeroed, but when a physical replication slot was created in
the shared memory of a previously existing logical slot, catalog_xmin
would not be cleared. That in turn would prevent vacuum from doing its
duties.

To fix initialize all the fields. To make similar future bugs less
likely, zero all of ReplicationSlotPersistentData, and re-order the
rest of the initialization to be in struct member order.

Analysis: Andrew Gierth
Reported-By: md(at)chewy(dot)com
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: <20160705173502(dot)1398(dot)70934(at)wrigleys(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Backpatch: 9.4, where replication slots were introduced

Branch
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REL9_4_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/690a2fb90ef47a3a0750b70e2abf13bbb82466ff

Modified Files
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src/backend/replication/slot.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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