Repair problem exposed by Jan's new parallel-regression-test scaffold:

inval.c thought it could safely use the catcache to look up the OIDs of
system relations.  Not good, considering that inval.c could be called
during catcache loading, if a shared-inval message arrives.  Rip out the
lookup logic and instead use the known OIDs from pg_class.h.

src/backend/utils/cache/catcache.c

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/catcache.c,v 1.52 1999/11/19 18:51:48 wieck Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/catcache.c,v 1.53 1999/11/21 01:58:22 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ InitSysCache(char *relname,
  * --------------------------------
  */
 static HeapTuple
-SearchSelfReferences(const struct catcache * cache)
+SearchSelfReferences(struct catcache * cache)
 {
 	HeapTuple		ntp;
 	Relation		rel;
@@ -983,23 +983,11 @@ SearchSysCache(struct catcache * cache,
 	 * ----------------
 	 */
 
-	/* ----------
-	 * It is definitely insufficient. While modifying the regression
-	 * test to run independent tests concurrently it happened, that
-	 * this code fails VERY often. ISTM that 'cache' points into
-	 * shared memory, but that 'busy' means this backend is loading
-	 * a new entry. So when another backend has set busy, this one
-	 * think's it detected a recursion.
-	 *
-	 * Need's a smarter detection mechanism - Jan
-	 *
 	if (cache->busy)
 	{
 		elog(ERROR, "SearchSysCache: recursive use of cache %d", cache->id);
 	}
 	cache->busy = true;
-	 * ----------
-	 */
 
 	/* ----------------
 	 *	open the relation associated with the cache

src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c,v 1.29 1999/11/17 23:51:21 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c,v 1.30 1999/11/21 01:58:22 tgl Exp $
  *
  * Note - this code is real crufty...
  *
@@ -18,23 +18,36 @@
 #include "catalog/catalog.h"
 #include "catalog/catname.h"
 #include "catalog/heap.h"
+#include "catalog/pg_class.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "storage/sinval.h"
 #include "utils/catcache.h"
 #include "utils/inval.h"
 #include "utils/relcache.h"
 
-static InvalidationEntry InvalidationEntryAllocate(uint16 size);
-static void LocalInvalidInvalidate(LocalInvalid invalid, void (*function) ());
-static LocalInvalid LocalInvalidRegister(LocalInvalid invalid,
-					 InvalidationEntry entry);
-static void getmyrelids(void);
-
 
 /* ----------------
  *		private invalidation structures
  * ----------------
  */
+
+typedef struct InvalidationUserData
+{
+	struct InvalidationUserData *dataP[1];		/* VARIABLE LENGTH */
+} InvalidationUserData;			/* VARIABLE LENGTH STRUCTURE */
+
+typedef struct InvalidationEntryData
+{
+	InvalidationUserData *nextP;
+	InvalidationUserData userData;		/* VARIABLE LENGTH ARRAY */
+} InvalidationEntryData;		/* VARIABLE LENGTH STRUCTURE */
+
+typedef Pointer InvalidationEntry;
+
+typedef InvalidationEntry LocalInvalid;
+
+#define EmptyLocalInvalid		NULL
+
 typedef struct CatalogInvalidationData
 {
 	Index		cacheId;
@@ -66,15 +79,14 @@ typedef InvalidationMessageData *InvalidationMessage;
  *		variables and macros
  * ----------------
  */
-static LocalInvalid Invalid = EmptyLocalInvalid;		/* XXX global */
+static LocalInvalid Invalid = EmptyLocalInvalid;	/* head of linked list */
 
-Oid			MyRelationRelationId = InvalidOid;
-Oid			MyAttributeRelationId = InvalidOid;
-Oid			MyAMRelationId = InvalidOid;
-Oid			MyAMOPRelationId = InvalidOid;
 
-#define ValidateHacks() \
+static InvalidationEntry InvalidationEntryAllocate(uint16 size);
-	if (!OidIsValid(MyRelationRelationId)) getmyrelids()
+static void LocalInvalidInvalidate(LocalInvalid invalid, void (*function) ());
+static LocalInvalid LocalInvalidRegister(LocalInvalid invalid,
+										 InvalidationEntry entry);
+
 
 /* ----------------------------------------------------------------
  *				"local" invalidation support functions
@@ -99,7 +111,8 @@ InvalidationEntryAllocate(uint16 size)
 
 /* --------------------------------
  *		LocalInvalidRegister
- *		   Returns a new local cache invalidation state containing a new entry.
+ *		   Link an invalidation entry into a chain of them.  Really ugly
+ *		   coding here.
  * --------------------------------
  */
 static LocalInvalid
@@ -117,7 +130,7 @@ LocalInvalidRegister(LocalInvalid invalid,
 /* --------------------------------
  *		LocalInvalidInvalidate
  *				Processes, then frees all entries in a local cache
- *				invalidation state.
+ *				invalidation list.
  * --------------------------------
  */
 static void
@@ -187,7 +200,7 @@ CacheIdRegisterLocalInvalid(Index cacheId,
 	ItemPointerCopy(pointer, &message->any.catalog.pointerData);
 
 	/* ----------------
-	 *	Note: Invalid is a global variable
+	 *	Add message to linked list of unprocessed messages.
 	 * ----------------
 	 */
 	Invalid = LocalInvalidRegister(Invalid, (InvalidationEntry) message);
@@ -224,32 +237,12 @@ RelationIdRegisterLocalInvalid(Oid relationId, Oid objectId)
 	message->any.relation.objectId = objectId;
 
 	/* ----------------
-	 *	Note: Invalid is a global variable
+	 *	Add message to linked list of unprocessed messages.
 	 * ----------------
 	 */
 	Invalid = LocalInvalidRegister(Invalid, (InvalidationEntry) message);
 }
 
-/* --------------------------------
- *		getmyrelids
- * --------------------------------
- */
-static void
-getmyrelids()
-{
-	MyRelationRelationId = RelnameFindRelid(RelationRelationName);
-	Assert(RelationRelationName != InvalidOid);
-
-	MyAttributeRelationId = RelnameFindRelid(AttributeRelationName);
-	Assert(AttributeRelationName != InvalidOid);
-
-	MyAMRelationId = RelnameFindRelid(AccessMethodRelationName);
-	Assert(MyAMRelationId != InvalidOid);
-
-	MyAMOPRelationId = RelnameFindRelid(AccessMethodOperatorRelationName);
-	Assert(MyAMOPRelationId != InvalidOid);
-}
-
 /* --------------------------------
  *		CacheIdInvalidate
  *
@@ -284,38 +277,23 @@ CacheIdInvalidate(Index cacheId,
 
 	CacheIdInvalidate_DEBUG1;
 
-	ValidateHacks();			/* XXX */
-
 	/* ----------------
-	 *	if the cacheId is the oid of any of the tuples in the
+	 *	if the cacheId is the oid of any of the following system relations,
-	 *	following system relations, then assume we are invalidating
+	 *	then assume we are invalidating a relation descriptor
-	 *	a relation descriptor
 	 * ----------------
 	 */
-	if (cacheId == MyRelationRelationId)
+	if (cacheId == RelOid_pg_class)
 	{
 		RelationIdInvalidateRelationCacheByRelationId(hashIndex);
 		return;
 	}
 
-	if (cacheId == MyAttributeRelationId)
+	if (cacheId == RelOid_pg_attribute)
 	{
 		RelationIdInvalidateRelationCacheByRelationId(hashIndex);
 		return;
 	}
 
-	if (cacheId == MyAMRelationId)
-	{
-		RelationIdInvalidateRelationCacheByAccessMethodId(hashIndex);
-		return;
-	}
-
-	if (cacheId == MyAMOPRelationId)
-	{
-		RelationIdInvalidateRelationCacheByAccessMethodId(InvalidOid);
-		return;
-	}
-
 	/* ----------------
 	 *	Yow! the caller asked us to invalidate something else.
 	 * ----------------
@@ -446,29 +424,22 @@ RelationInvalidateRelationCache(Relation relation,
 								void (*function) ())
 {
 	Oid			relationId;
-	Oid			objectId = (Oid) 0;
+	Oid			objectId;
 
 	/* ----------------
 	 *	get the relation object id
 	 * ----------------
 	 */
-	ValidateHacks();			/* XXX */
 	relationId = RelationGetRelid(relation);
 
 	/* ----------------
-	 *
+	 *	is it one of the ones we need to send an SI message for?
 	 * ----------------
 	 */
-	if (relationId == MyRelationRelationId)
+	if (relationId == RelOid_pg_class)
 		objectId = tuple->t_data->t_oid;
-	else if (relationId == MyAttributeRelationId)
+	else if (relationId == RelOid_pg_attribute)
 		objectId = ((Form_pg_attribute) GETSTRUCT(tuple))->attrelid;
-	else if (relationId == MyAMRelationId)
-		objectId = tuple->t_data->t_oid;
-	else if (relationId == MyAMOPRelationId)
-	{
-		;						/* objectId is unused */
-	}
 	else
 		return;
 
@@ -482,19 +453,6 @@ RelationInvalidateRelationCache(Relation relation,
 }
 
 
-/*
- *	InitLocalInvalidateData
- *
- *	Setup this before anything could ever get invalid!
- *	Called by InitPostgres();
- */
-void
-InitLocalInvalidateData()
-{
-	ValidateHacks();
-}
-
-
 /*
  * DiscardInvalid
  *		Causes the invalidated cache state to be discarded.
@@ -528,6 +486,8 @@ DiscardInvalid()
 void
 RegisterInvalid(bool send)
 {
+	LocalInvalid invalid;
+
 	/* ----------------
 	 *	debugging stuff
 	 * ----------------
@@ -537,17 +497,19 @@ RegisterInvalid(bool send)
 #endif	 /* defined(INVALIDDEBUG) */
 
 	/* ----------------
-	 *	Note: Invalid is a global variable
+	 *	Process and free the current list of inval messages.
 	 * ----------------
 	 */
+	invalid = Invalid;
+	Invalid = EmptyLocalInvalid; /* anything added now is part of a new list */
+
 	if (send)
-		LocalInvalidInvalidate(Invalid,
+		LocalInvalidInvalidate(invalid,
 							   InvalidationMessageRegisterSharedInvalid);
 	else
-		LocalInvalidInvalidate(Invalid,
+		LocalInvalidInvalidate(invalid,
 							   InvalidationMessageCacheInvalidate);
 
-	Invalid = EmptyLocalInvalid;
 }
 
 /*

src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c,v 1.79 1999/11/18 13:56:28 wieck Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c,v 1.80 1999/11/21 01:58:22 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -209,11 +209,6 @@ do { \
 static void formrdesc(char *relationName, u_int natts,
 		  FormData_pg_attribute *att);
 
-#ifdef NOT_USED					/* See comments at line 1304 */
-static void RelationFlushIndexes(Relation *r, Oid accessMethodId);
-
-#endif
-
 static HeapTuple ScanPgRelation(RelationBuildDescInfo buildinfo);
 static HeapTuple scan_pg_rel_seq(RelationBuildDescInfo buildinfo);
 static HeapTuple scan_pg_rel_ind(RelationBuildDescInfo buildinfo);
@@ -1431,12 +1426,9 @@ RelationIdInvalidateRelationCacheByRelationId(Oid relationId)
 	}
 }
 
-#if NOT_USED					/* See comments at line 1304 */
+#if NOT_USED
-/* --------------------------------
+/* only used by RelationIdInvalidateRelationCacheByAccessMethodId,
- *		RelationIdInvalidateRelationCacheByAccessMethodId
+ * which is dead code.
- *
- *		RelationFlushIndexes is needed for use with HashTableWalk..
- * --------------------------------
  */
 static void
 RelationFlushIndexes(Relation *r,
@@ -1459,11 +1451,10 @@ RelationFlushIndexes(Relation *r,
 #endif
 
 
+#if NOT_USED
 void
 RelationIdInvalidateRelationCacheByAccessMethodId(Oid accessMethodId)
 {
-#ifdef NOT_USED
-
 	/*
 	 * 25 aug 1992:  mao commented out the ht walk below.  it should be
 	 * doing the right thing, in theory, but flushing reldescs for index
@@ -1471,14 +1462,15 @@ RelationIdInvalidateRelationCacheByAccessMethodId(Oid accessMethodId)
 	 * don't want to introduce new bugs.  this code never executed before,
 	 * so i'm turning it off for now.  after the release is cut, i'll fix
 	 * this up.
+	 *
+	 * 20 nov 1999:  this code has still never done anything, so I'm
+	 * cutting the routine out of the system entirely.  tgl
 	 */
 
 	HashTableWalk(RelationNameCache, (HashtFunc) RelationFlushIndexes,
 				  accessMethodId);
-#else
-	return;
-#endif
 }
+#endif
 
 /*
  * RelationCacheInvalidate

src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c,v 1.52 1999/10/25 03:07:51 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c,v 1.53 1999/11/21 01:58:21 tgl Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *		InitPostgres() is the function called from PostgresMain
@@ -553,12 +553,6 @@ InitPostgres(char *name)		/* database name */
 	 */
 	InitUserid();
 
-	/*
-	 * Initialize local data in cache invalidation stuff
-	 */
-	if (!bootstrap)
-		InitLocalInvalidateData();
-
 	if (lockingOff)
 		LockDisable(true);
 

src/include/utils/inval.h

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $Id: inval.h,v 1.13 1999/07/15 23:04:22 momjian Exp $
+ * $Id: inval.h,v 1.14 1999/11/21 01:58:20 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -15,32 +15,10 @@
 
 #include "access/htup.h"
 
-extern void InitLocalInvalidateData(void);
-
 extern void DiscardInvalid(void);
 
 extern void RegisterInvalid(bool send);
 
 extern void RelationInvalidateHeapTuple(Relation relation, HeapTuple tuple);
 
-/*
- * POSTGRES local cache invalidation definitions. (originates from linval.h)
- */
-typedef struct InvalidationUserData
-{
-	struct InvalidationUserData *dataP[1];		/* VARIABLE LENGTH */
-} InvalidationUserData;			/* VARIABLE LENGTH STRUCTURE */
-
-typedef struct InvalidationEntryData
-{
-	InvalidationUserData *nextP;
-	InvalidationUserData userData;		/* VARIABLE LENGTH ARRAY */
-} InvalidationEntryData;		/* VARIABLE LENGTH STRUCTURE */
-
-typedef Pointer InvalidationEntry;
-
-typedef InvalidationEntry LocalInvalid;
-
-#define EmptyLocalInvalid		NULL
-
 #endif	 /* INVAL_H */

src/include/utils/relcache.h

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $Id: relcache.h,v 1.15 1999/10/03 23:55:38 tgl Exp $
+ * $Id: relcache.h,v 1.16 1999/11/21 01:58:20 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ extern void RelationRebuildRelation(Relation relation);
 
 extern void RelationIdInvalidateRelationCacheByRelationId(Oid relationId);
 
-extern void RelationIdInvalidateRelationCacheByAccessMethodId(Oid accessMethodId);
-
 extern void RelationCacheInvalidate(bool onlyFlushReferenceCountZero);
 
 extern void RelationRegisterRelation(Relation relation);