pgsql: Fix corruption of templates after CREATE DATABASE .. STRATEGY WA

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix corruption of templates after CREATE DATABASE .. STRATEGY WA
Date: 2023-02-22 01:15:54
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Fix corruption of templates after CREATE DATABASE .. STRATEGY WAL_LOG

WAL_LOG does a scan of the template's pg_class to determine the set of
relations that need to be copied from a template database to the new
one. However, as coded in 9c08aea, this copy strategy would load the
pages of pg_class without considering it as a permanent relation,
causing the loaded pages to never be flushed when they should. Any
modification of the template's pg_class, mostly through DDLs, would then
be missed, causing corruptions.

STRATEGY = WAL_LOG is the default over FILE_COPY since it has been
introduced, so any changes done to pg_class on a database template would
be gone. Updates of database templates should be a rare thing, so the
impact of this bug should be hopefully limited. The pre-14 default
strategy FILE_COPY is safe, and can be used as a workaround.

Ryo Matsumura has found and analyzed the issue, and Nathan has written a
test able to reproduce the failure (with few tweaks from me).

Backpatch down to 15, where STRATEGY = WAL_LOG has been introduced.

Author: Nathan Bossart, Ryo Matsumura
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB6868677E499C9AD5123084B5E8A39@TYCPR01MB6868.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 15

Branch
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REL_15_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fa5dd460c1805a00a6fcc909b7e1f826663bcce3

Modified Files
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src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c | 2 +-
src/test/recovery/t/034_create_database.pl | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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