Protect against torn pages when deleting GIN list pages.

hlinnaka · hlinnaka · commit be7830596f33 · 2014-05-08T14:46:43.000+03:00
To-be-deleted list pages contain no useful information, as they are being
deleted, but we must still protect the writes from being torn by a crash
after a partial write. To do that, re-initialize the pages on WAL replay.

Jeff Janes caught this with a test program to test partial writes.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c b/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c
@@ -650,25 +650,24 @@ ginRedoDeleteListPages(XLogRecPtr lsn, XLogRecord *record)
 	PageSetTLI(metapage, ThisTimeLineID);
 	MarkBufferDirty(metabuffer);
 
+	/*
+	 * No full-page images are taken of the deleted pages. Instead, they are
+	 * re-initialized as empty, deleted pages.
+	 */
 	for (i = 0; i < data->ndeleted; i++)
 	{
-		Buffer		buffer = XLogReadBuffer(data->node, data->toDelete[i], false);
+		Buffer		buffer;
+		Page		page;
 
-		if (BufferIsValid(buffer))
-		{
-			Page		page = BufferGetPage(buffer);
-
-			if (!XLByteLE(lsn, PageGetLSN(page)))
-			{
-				GinPageGetOpaque(page)->flags = GIN_DELETED;
+		buffer = XLogReadBuffer(data->node, data->toDelete[i], true);
+		page = BufferGetPage(buffer);
+		GinInitBuffer(buffer, GIN_DELETED);
 
-				PageSetLSN(page, lsn);
-				PageSetTLI(page, ThisTimeLineID);
-				MarkBufferDirty(buffer);
-			}
+		PageSetLSN(page, lsn);
+		PageSetTLI(page, ThisTimeLineID);
+		MarkBufferDirty(buffer);
 
-			UnlockReleaseBuffer(buffer);
-		}
+		UnlockReleaseBuffer(buffer);
 	}
 	UnlockReleaseBuffer(metabuffer);
 }
