Re: [PATCH] plpython function causes server panic

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 1:52 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > I agree with the general direction. A few comments:
>
> > - Isn't it redundant to test if IsInParallelMode() ||
> > IsParallelWorker()? We can't be in a parallel worker without also
> > being in parallel mode, except during the worker startup sequence.
>
> Hmm.  The existing code in AssignTransactionId and
> CommandCounterIncrement tests both, so I figured that the conservative
> course was to make DefineSavepoint and friends test both.  Are you
> saying AssignTransactionId and CommandCounterIncrement are wrong?
> If you're saying you don't believe that these routines are reachable
> during parallel worker start, that could be true, but I'm not sure
> I want to make that assumption.  In any case, surely the xxxSavepoint
> routines are not hot enough to make it an interesting
> micro-optimization.  (Perhaps it is worthwhile in AssignTransactionId
> and CCI, but changing those seems like a job for another patch.)

Yeah, that's all fair enough. I went back and looked at the history of
this and found 94b4f7e2a635c3027a23b07086f740615b56aa64.

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Robert Haas
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