SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <[email protected]> wrote:

> restore_tuple() in repack.c uses SET_VARSIZE() to reconstruct the varlena 
> header when 
> reading back external attributes from the spill file. In this process, looks 
> like the flag 
> SET_VARSIZE_COMPRESSED is silently lost. Because of this, when REPACK 
> CONCURRENTLY
> run  any concurrently updated column whose value was TOAST-compressed ends up 
> with raw 
> compressed bytes behind an "uncompressed" header returning garbled data on 
> subsequent reads.
> It appears that existing tests are using random chars which are 
> uncompressable.
> 
> Please find the attached 
> 0001-Fix-restore_tuple-losing-varlena-compression-flag.patch to fix this. 
> Additionally I updated the existing repack_toast test to include the scenario 
> I was talking about.

Good catch, thanks!

I'd slightly prefer to fix it w/o checking the varlena type, as
attached. However, your test fails to reproduce the issue here, so I'm not
able to verify the fix. I'll take a closer look early next week.

-- 
Antonin Houska
Web: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index e2600a8888d..3c07e44d649 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -2736,7 +2736,7 @@ restore_tuple(BufFile *file, Relation relation, TupleTableSlot *slot)
 			varlensz = VARSIZE_ANY(&chunk_header);
 
 			value = palloc(varlensz);
-			SET_VARSIZE(value, VARSIZE_ANY(&chunk_header));
+			memcpy(value, &chunk_header, VARHDRSZ);
 			BufFileReadExact(file, (char *) value + VARHDRSZ, varlensz - VARHDRSZ);
 
 			slot->tts_values[i] = PointerGetDatum(value);

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