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A new pgstats entry is created as a two-step process: - The entry is looked at in the shared hashtable of pgstats, and is inserted if not found. - When not found and inserted, its fields are then initialized. This part include a DSA chunk allocation for the stats data of the new entry. As currently coded, if the DSA chunk allocation fails due to an out-of-memory failure, an ERROR is generated, leaving in the pgstats shared hashtable an inconsistent entry due to the first step, as the entry has already been inserted in the hashtable. These broken entries can then be found by other backends, crashing them. There are only two callers of pgstat_init_entry(), when loading the pgstats file at startup and when creating a new pgstats entry. This commit changes pgstat_init_entry() so as we use dsa_allocate_extended() with DSA_ALLOC_NO_OOM, making it return NULL on allocation failure instead of failing. This way, a backend failing an entry creation can take appropriate cleanup actions in the shared hashtable before throwing an error. Currently, this means removing the entry from the shared hashtable before throwing the error for the allocation failure. Out-of-memory errors unlikely happen in the wild, and we do not bother with back-patches when these are fixed, usually. However, the problem dealt with here is a degree worse as it breaks the shared memory state of pgstats, impacting other processes that may look at an inconsistent entry that a different process has failed to create. Author: Mikhail Kot <mikhail.kot@databricks.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAi9E7jELo5_-sBENftnc2E8XhW2PKZJWfTC3i2y-GMQd2bcqQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 15
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