As of this commit, after recovering the remote transactions, now we release the lock
on pg_dist_transaction while closing it to avoid deadlocks that might occur because
of trying to acquire a lock on pg_dist_authinfo while holding a lock on
pg_dist_transaction. Such a scenario can only cause a deadlock if another transaction
is trying to acquire a strong lock on pg_dist_transaction while holding a lock on
pg_dist_authinfo. As of today, we (implicitly) acquire a strong lock on
pg_dist_transaction only when upgrading Citus to 11.3-1 and this happens when creating
a REPLICA IDENTITY on pg_dist_transaction.
And regardless of the code-path we are in, it should be okay to release the lock there
because all we do after that point is to abort the prepared transactions that are not
part of an in-progress distributed transaction and releasing the lock before doing so
should be just fine.
This also changes the blocking behavior between citus_create_restore_point and the
transaction recovery code-path in the sense that now citus_create_restore_point doesn't
until transaction recovery completes aborting the prepared transactions that are not
part of an in-progress distributed transaction. However, this should be fine because
even before this was possible, e.g., if transaction recovery fails to open a remote
connection to a node.
Currently in mx isolation tests the setup is the same except the creation of tables. Isolation framework lets us define multiple `setup` stages, therefore I thought that we can put the `mx_setup` to one file and prepend this prior to running tests.
How the structure works:
- cpp is used before running isolation tests to preprocess spec files. This way we can include any file we want to. Currently this is used to include mx common part.
- spec files are put to `/build/specs` for clear separation between generated files and template files
- a symbolic link is created for `/expected` in `build/expected/`.
- when running isolation tests, as the `inputdir`, `build` is passed so it runs the spec files from `build/specs` and checks the expected output from `build/expected`.
`/specs` is renamed as `/spec` because postgres first look at the `specs` file under current directory, so this is renamed to avoid that since we are running the isolation tests from `build/specs` now.
Note: now we use `//` instead of `#` in comments in spec files, because cpp interprets `#` as a directive and it ignores `//`.
Onur Tirtir
Naisila Puka
SaitTalhaNisanci