Re: BUG #17949: Adding an index introduces serialisation anomalies.

> On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 09:29:09PM -0400, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Starred
>
> Hi,
>
> Reproduced here.  Thanks for the reproducer.  I agree that something
> is wrong here, but I haven't had time to figure out what, yet, but let
> me share what I noticed so far... I modified your test to add a pid
> column to the locks table and to insert insert pg_backend_pid() into
> it, and got:
>
> postgres=# select xmin, * from locks;
>
> ┌───────┬──────┬───────┐
> │ xmin  │ path │  pid  │
> ├───────┼──────┼───────┤
> │ 17634 │ xyz  │ 32932 │
> │ 17639 │ xyz  │ 32957 │
> └───────┴──────┴───────┘
>
> Then I filtered the logs (having turned the logging up to capture all
> queries) so I could see just those PIDs and saw this sequence:
>
> 2023-05-29 00:15:43.933 EDT [32932] LOG:  duration: 0.182 ms
> statement: BEGIN TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE
> 2023-05-29 00:15:43.934 EDT [32957] LOG:  duration: 0.276 ms
> statement: BEGIN TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE
> 2023-05-29 00:15:43.935 EDT [32932] LOG:  duration: 1.563 ms
> statement: SELECT * FROM locks WHERE path = 'xyz'
> 2023-05-29 00:15:43.936 EDT [32932] LOG:  duration: 0.126 ms
> statement: INSERT INTO locks(path, pid) VALUES('xyz',
> pg_backend_pid())
> 2023-05-29 00:15:43.937 EDT [32957] LOG:  duration: 2.191 ms
> statement: SELECT * FROM locks WHERE path = 'xyz'
> 2023-05-29 00:15:43.937 EDT [32957] LOG:  duration: 0.261 ms
> statement: INSERT INTO locks(path, pid) VALUES('xyz',
> pg_backend_pid())
> 2023-05-29 00:15:43.937 EDT [32932] LOG:  duration: 0.222 ms  statement: COMMIT
> 2023-05-29 00:15:43.939 EDT [32957] LOG:  duration: 1.775 ms  statement: COMMIT

I've tried to reproduce it as well, adding more logging around the
serialization code. If it helps, what I observe is the second
overlapping transaction, that has started a bit later, do not error out
because in OnConflict_CheckForSerializationFailure (when checking for
"writer has become a pivot") there are no more conflicts received from
SHMQueueNext. All the rest of the reported serialization conflicts are
coming from this check, so I assume the incorrect transaction should
fail there too. Not sure yet why is that so.