Re: BUG #18014: Releasing catcache entries makes schema_to_xmlschema() fail when parallel workers are used

Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> writes:
> 13.10.2023 18:00, Alexander Lakhin wrote:
>> I'll try to research/break xxx_is_visible and share my findings tomorrow.

> I tried the script based on the initial reproducer [1]:
> ...
> And couldn't get the error, for multiple runs. (Here SELECT oid ... is
> based on the query executed by schema_to_xmlschema().)
> But I could reliably get the error with
> s/pg_table_is_visible(oid)/has_table_privilege (oid, 'SELECT')/.
> So there is a difference between these two functions. And the difference is
> in their costs.

Ah, thanks for poking at it.  I believe the reason for the cost issue
is that your query already has a very selective indexable condition,
so it tends not to bother with a parallel scan.  I removed the
relnamespace condition:

SELECT oid FROM pg_catalog.pg_class WHERE -- relnamespace = 1 AND
  relkind IN ('r', 'm', 'v') AND pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(oid);

and then I get a parallel plan without messing with the cost, and it
falls over almost immediately (in a CATCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE build,
anyway).

ITERATION 1
ITERATION 2
ERROR:  cache lookup failed for relation 208139
CONTEXT:  parallel worker
ERROR:  cache lookup failed for relation 208471
CONTEXT:  parallel worker
2023-10-14 12:30:24.747 EDT [1762290] ERROR:  cache lookup failed for relation 208139
2023-10-14 12:30:24.747 EDT [1762266] ERROR:  cache lookup failed for relation 208139
2023-10-14 12:30:24.782 EDT [1762310] ERROR:  cache lookup failed for relation 208471
2023-10-14 12:30:24.782 EDT [1762252] ERROR:  cache lookup failed for relation 208471

So we do need to fix that.

            regards, tom lane