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…sue malisper#61) Slot-exhaustion red test: a pinned old-xmin serializable xact keeps ClearOldPredicateLocks from freeing committed sxacts while churning writers drain the (MaxBackends + max_prepared_xacts) * 10 pool; the overflow must summarize into the pg_serial SLRU, not panic. Extends the test harness with the SLRU seams (file/pgstat/shmem-init) and a datadir cwd, and makes test_acquire_sxact mirror the real snapshot path's unported-arm panic so the red run reproduces the issue exactly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
InitPredicateLocks sizes the SERIALIZABLEXID hash with max_table_size
AFTER the *= 10 ('must agree with PredicateLockShmemSize', which the
port's ShmemSize already estimates at 10x). The port passed the
un-multiplied count, so RegisterPredicateLockingXid hit 'out of shared
memory' at ~(MaxBackends + max_prepared_xacts) registered xids — an
order of magnitude before SERIALIZABLEXACT slot exhaustion, where C is
designed to summarize instead. Surfaced by the issue-malisper#61 red test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…alisper#61) C-exact port of predicate.c's serial lane: SerialInit now stands up the pg_serial SLRU (SerialPagePrecedesLogically + C's assert-only unit tests), SerialAdd zeroes the tail..target window under SerialControlLock + bank lock and stores the min conflict commitSeqNo, SerialGetMinConflict- CommitSeqNo reads it back, and CheckPointPredicate truncates/flushes the SLRU. SERIALIZABLEXACT exhaustion now runs C's summarize-and-retry loop (SummarizeOldestCommittedSxact over the finished list into SerialAdd + ReleaseOneSerializableXact's already-ported summarize arm) instead of panicking. PredicateLockShmemSize accounts the control struct + SLRU. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change ports the ChangesPredicate-lock serial summarization
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change adds shared predicate-serialization state, but the current implementation creates that control state privately in each backend despite reserving shared memory for it. Concurrent serializable workloads could therefore use inconsistent coordination state and fail or produce incorrect behavior, so the PR is not merge-ready until the allocation is corrected. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GetSerializableTransactionSnapshot
participant SummarizeOldestCommittedSxact
participant SerialAdd
participant pg_serial
GetSerializableTransactionSnapshot->>SummarizeOldestCommittedSxact: retry after slot exhaustion
SummarizeOldestCommittedSxact->>SerialAdd: record conflict summary
SerialAdd->>pg_serial: write serial entry
SummarizeOldestCommittedSxact-->>GetSerializableTransactionSnapshot: release summarized slot
GetSerializableTransactionSnapshot->>GetSerializableTransactionSnapshot: retry slot allocation
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2840-2848: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winExtract the slot-acquisition loop so the test helper cannot diverge.
Lines 2842-2848 duplicate lines 793-799 exactly. The comment states that the test helper mirrors
GetSerializableTransactionSnapshotInt. That mirroring is manual. If the production loop changes, this copy stays stale and the exhaustion regression test stops exercising the real acquisition path.Extract one helper that both call sites use. The helper assumes
SerializableXactHashLockis held exclusively on entry and guarantees it is held on return.♻️ Proposed refactor
Add the helper next to
SummarizeOldestCommittedSxact:// Allocate a SERIALIZABLEXACT slot. If the pool is exhausted, push the // oldest committed sxact into the pg_serial summary and retry. // SerializableXactHashLock must be held exclusively on entry; it is held // exclusively on return. unsafe fn CreatePredXactOrSummarize(procno: ProcNumber) -> PgResult<*mut SERIALIZABLEXACT> { let mut sxact = CreatePredXact(); while sxact.is_null() { LWLockRelease(SerializableXactHashLock())?; SummarizeOldestCommittedSxact()?; LWLockAcquire(SerializableXactHashLock(), LW_EXCLUSIVE, procno)?; sxact = CreatePredXact(); } Ok(sxact) }Then replace both call sites:
- // Mirrors GetSerializableTransactionSnapshotInt's slot acquisition: - // if null, push out a committed sxact to the SLRU summary & retry. - let mut sxact = CreatePredXact(); - while sxact.is_null() { - LWLockRelease(SerializableXactHashLock())?; - SummarizeOldestCommittedSxact()?; - LWLockAcquire(SerializableXactHashLock(), LW_EXCLUSIVE, procno)?; - sxact = CreatePredXact(); - } + let sxact = CreatePredXactOrSummarize(procno)?;Apply the same replacement at lines 792-799.
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In `@crates/backend/storage/lmgr/predicate/src/serial.rs`:
- Around line 151-154: Update SerialInit to initialize SerialControlData in
shared memory using ShmemInitStruct, matching the space reserved by
SerialShmemSize, instead of allocating it with Box::leak; preserve the existing
initialization and shared-state behavior.
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In `@crates/backend/storage/lmgr/predicate/src/engine.rs`:
- Around line 2840-2848: Extract the duplicated slot-acquisition loop into a
shared helper near SummarizeOldestCommittedSxact, using CreatePredXact,
SummarizeOldestCommittedSxact, and the SerializableXactHashLock with the
existing procno parameter; require exclusive lock ownership on entry and
preserve it on return. Replace the loops in both
GetSerializableTransactionSnapshotInt and the test helper with this helper.
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Allocate SerialControlData with ShmemInitStruct in SerialInit. SerialShmemSize reserves space for it, but SerialInit uses Box::leak, so the reserved space is unused and each backend has a private copy of the cross-backend control state.
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In `@crates/backend/storage/lmgr/predicate/src/serial.rs` around lines 151 - 154,
Update SerialInit to initialize SerialControlData in shared memory using
ShmemInitStruct, matching the space reserved by SerialShmemSize, instead of
allocating it with Box::leak; preserve the existing initialization and
shared-state behavior.
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Fixes #61.
GetSerializableTransactionSnapshotpanicked as soon as the SERIALIZABLEXACT pool —(MaxBackends + max_prepared_xacts) * 10slots — ran out, instead of running C's summarize-into-pg_serial-and-retry loop. Any sustained SERIALIZABLE workload could hit this.Changes
serial.rs— C-exact port of PG 18.3 predicate.c's serial lane, replacing the stubs:SerialInitnow stands up thepg_serialSLRU (SimpleLruInit("serializable", …),SerialPagePrecedesLogically, plus C'sUSE_ASSERT_CHECKING-only unit tests undercfg(debug_assertions))SerialAdd: tail-precedence early-out, tail→target window zeroing (including the page-advance loop that trades bank locks), and the entry store — all while holdingSerialControlLocktogether with the SLRU bank lock, per CSerialGetMinConflictCommitSeqNo: full SLRU read replacing the panic tailCheckPointPredicate: full truncate/flush body (tail-ahead-of-head case, headPage retirement when tailXid is invalid)SerialResetAfterCrashalso resets the SLRUengine.rs:SummarizeOldestCommittedSxactported (pops the earliest commit off the finished list,SerialAdds its top xid withearliestOutConflictCommit/InvalidSerCommitSeqNo, then runs the already-portedReleaseOneSerializableXactsummarize arm)GetSerializableTransactionSnapshotInt(and thetest_acquire_sxactmirror) now run C's do/while: release hash lock → summarize → re-acquire → retryCreatePredXactPredicateLockShmemSizeaccountsSerialControlData+ the SLRUmax_table_sizeafter*= 10("must agree with PredicateLockShmemSize" — and the port's ShmemSize already estimated ×10).RegisterPredicateLockingXidhitout of shared memoryat ~1/10 the intended capacity, an order of magnitude before slot exhaustion. Fixed in its own commit (de98c2b) so it gets its own red proof.Testing (TDD, staged red→green)
New test
sxact_exhaustion_summarizes_into_pg_serial: a pinned old-xmin serializable transaction in a second backend keepsClearOldPredicateLocksfrom freeing committed sxacts while ~490 committed writers churn through the pool; registered xids deliberately straddle a pg_serial page boundary.6cca72c, test only): fails with dynahashout of shared memoryfromRegisterPredicateLockingXid— the xid-hash sizing bug, found before the issue's panic was even reachable.de98c2b, sizing fixed): fails with exactly the issue's panic:predicate.c SummarizeOldestCommittedSxact: SERIALIZABLEXACT slots exhausted and the pg_serial summarization path is not ported.2e51057, port landed): passes — asserts summaries landed in the SLRU window (head/tail state),SerialGetMinConflictCommitSeqNoreadback (InvalidSerCommitSeqNofor a summarized no-conflict xid vs0outside the window), predicate-lock transfer toOldCommittedSxact, checkpoint flushing thepg_serial/0000segment to disk, headPage retirement once the window empties, and full pool recovery afterwards.cargo check --workspacepasses. Run on Ubuntu 26.04, rustc 1.96.0.Reference source was the
REL_18_3tag of predicate.c, read side-by-side function-by-function.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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