When COPYing into a partitioned table that does now permit the use of
table_multi_insert(), we could error out with
ERROR: could not read block NN in file "base/...": read only 0 of 8192 bytes
because BulkInsertState->next_free was not reset between partitions. This
problem occurred only when not able to use table_multi_insert(), as a
dedicated BulkInsertState for each partition is used in that case.
The bug was introduced in 00d1e02be2, but it was hard to hit at that point,
as commonly bulk relation extension is not used when not using
table_multi_insert(). It became more likely after 82a4edabd2, which expanded
the use of bulk extension.
To fix the bug, reset the bulk relation extension state in BulkInsertState in
ReleaseBulkInsertStatePin(). That was added (in b1ecb9b3fc) to tackle a very
similar issue. Obviously the name is not quite correct, but there might be
external callers, and bulk insert state needs to be reset in precisely in the
situations that ReleaseBulkInsertStatePin() already needed to be called.
Medium term the better fix likely is to disallow reusing BulkInsertState
across relations.
Add a test that, without the fix, reproduces #18130 in most
configurations. The test also catches the problem fixed in b1ecb9b3fc when
run with small shared_buffers.
Reported-by: Ivan Kolombet <enderstd@gmail.com>
Analyzed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Analyzed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Bug: #18130
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18130-7a86a7356a75209d%40postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/257696.1695670946%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch: 16-
0002feb820