# 2009 March 11 # # The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of # a legal notice, here is a blessing: # # May you do good and not evil. # May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others. # May you share freely, never taking more than you give. # #*********************************************************************** # # Test a race-condition that shows up in shared-cache mode. # # $Id: thread005.test,v 1.2 2009/03/16 17:07:57 drh Exp $ set testdir [file dirname $argv0] source $testdir/tester.tcl ifcapable !mutex||!shared_cache { return } source $testdir/thread_common.tcl if {[info commands sqlthread] eq ""} { return } #------------------------------------------------------------------------- # This test tries to exercise a race-condition that existed in shared-cache # mode at one point. The test uses two threads; each has a database connection # open on the same shared cache. The schema of the database is: # # CREATE TABLE t1(a INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, b UNIQUE); # # One thread is a reader and the other thread a reader and a writer. The # writer thread repeats the following transaction as fast as possible: # # BEGIN; # DELETE FROM t1 WHERE a = (SELECT max(a) FROM t1); # INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(NULL, NULL); # UPDATE t1 SET b = a WHERE a = (SELECT max(a) FROM t1); # SELECT count(*) FROM t1 WHERE b IS NULL; # COMMIT; # # The reader thread does the following over and over as fast as possible: # # BEGIN; # SELECT count(*) FROM t1 WHERE b IS NULL; # COMMIT; # # The test runs for 20 seconds or until one of the "SELECT count(*)" # statements returns a non-zero value. If an SQLITE_LOCKED error occurs, # the connection issues a ROLLBACK immediately to abandon the current # transaction. # # If everything is working correctly, the "SELECT count(*)" statements # should never return a value other than 0. The "INSERT" statement # executed by the writer adds a row with "b IS NULL" to the table, but # the subsequent UPDATE statement sets its "b" value to an integer # immediately afterwards. # # However, before the race-condition was fixed, if the reader's SELECT # statement hit an error (say an SQLITE_LOCKED) at the same time as the # writer was executing the UPDATE statement, then it could incorrectly # rollback the statement-transaction belonging to the UPDATE statement. # The UPDATE statement would still be reported as successful to the user, # but it would have no effect on the database contents. # # Note that it has so far only proved possible to hit this race-condition # when using an ATTACHed database. There doesn't seem to be any reason # for this, other than that operating on an ATTACHed database means there # are a few more mutex grabs and releases during the window of time open # for the race-condition. Maybe this encourages the scheduler to context # switch or something... # # Use shared-cache mode for this test. # db close set ::enable_shared_cache [sqlite3_enable_shared_cache] sqlite3_enable_shared_cache 1 file delete -force test.db test2.db unset -nocomplain finished do_test thread005-1.1 { sqlite3 db test.db execsql { ATTACH 'test2.db' AS aux } execsql { CREATE TABLE aux.t1(a INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, b UNIQUE); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(1, 1); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(2, 2); } db close } {} set ThreadProgram { proc execsql {zSql {db {}}} { if {$db eq ""} {set db $::DB} set lRes [list] set rc SQLITE_OK while {$rc=="SQLITE_OK" && $zSql ne ""} { set STMT [sqlite3_prepare_v2 $db $zSql -1 zSql] while {[set rc [sqlite3_step $STMT]] eq "SQLITE_ROW"} { for {set i 0} {$i < [sqlite3_column_count $STMT]} {incr i} { lappend lRes [sqlite3_column_text $STMT 0] } } set rc [sqlite3_finalize $STMT] } if {$rc != "SQLITE_OK"} { error "$rc [sqlite3_errmsg $db]" } return $lRes } if {$isWriter} { set Sql { BEGIN; DELETE FROM t1 WHERE a = (SELECT max(a) FROM t1); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(NULL, NULL); UPDATE t1 SET b = a WHERE a = (SELECT max(a) FROM t1); SELECT count(*) FROM t1 WHERE b IS NULL; COMMIT; } } else { set Sql { BEGIN; SELECT count(*) FROM t1 WHERE b IS NULL; COMMIT; } } set ::DB [sqlite3_open test.db] execsql { ATTACH 'test2.db' AS aux } set result "ok" set finish [expr [clock_seconds]+5] while {$result eq "ok" && [clock_seconds] < $finish} { set rc [catch {execsql $Sql} msg] if {$rc} { if {[string match "SQLITE_LOCKED*" $msg]} { catch { execsql ROLLBACK } } else { error $msg } } elseif {$msg ne "0"} { set result "failed" } } sqlite3_close $::DB set result } puts "Running thread-tests for ~20 seconds" thread_spawn finished(0) {set isWriter 0} $ThreadProgram thread_spawn finished(1) {set isWriter 1} $ThreadProgram if {![info exists finished(0)]} { vwait finished(0) } if {![info exists finished(1)]} { vwait finished(1) } do_test thread005-1.2 { list $finished(0) $finished(1) } {ok ok} do_test thread005-1.3 { sqlite3 db test.db execsql { ATTACH 'test2.db' AS aux } execsql { SELECT count(*) FROM t1 WHERE b IS NULL } } {0} sqlite3_enable_shared_cache $::enable_shared_cache finish_test