pgsql: Disable recheck_on_update optimization to avoid crashes.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Disable recheck_on_update optimization to avoid crashes.
Date: 2018-11-06 23:33:53
Message-ID: E1gKAr3-0004nI-K3@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Disable recheck_on_update optimization to avoid crashes.

The code added by commit c203d6cf8 causes a crash in at least one case,
where a potentially-optimizable expression index has a storage type
different from the input data type. A cursory code review turned up
numerous other problems that seem impractical to fix on short notice.

Andres argued for revert of that patch some time ago, and if additional
senior committers had been paying attention, that's likely what would
have happened, but we were not :-(

At this point we can't just revert, at least not in v11, because that would
mean an ABI break for code touching relcache entries. And we should not
remove the (also buggy) support for the recheck_on_update index reloption,
since it might already be used in some databases in the field. So this
patch just does the as-little-invasive-as-possible measure of disabling
the feature as though recheck_on_update were forced off for all indexes.
I also removed the related regression tests (which would otherwise fail)
and the user-facing documentation of the reloption.

We should undertake a more thorough code cleanup if the patch can't be
fixed, but not under the extreme time pressure of being already overdue
for 11.1 release.

Per report from Ondřej Bouda and subsequent private discussion among
pgsql-release.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181106185255.776mstcyehnc63ty@alvherre.pgsql

Branch
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REL_11_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/05f84605dbeb9cf8279a157234b24bbb706c5256

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml | 37 +-----------------
doc/src/sgml/release-11.sgml | 13 -------
src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c | 3 ++
src/test/regress/expected/func_index.out | 64 --------------------------------
src/test/regress/parallel_schedule | 2 +-
src/test/regress/serial_schedule | 1 -
src/test/regress/sql/func_index.sql | 31 ----------------
7 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 145 deletions(-)

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