On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > Ah - it effectively is already in a critical section, just a weirdly spelled > one: > > 2025-03-19 19:00:06.398 EDT [2156613][client backend][0/3:0][psql] LOG: > statement: DROP TABLE foo; > 2025-03-19 19:00:06.404 EDT [2156613][client backend][0/0:43139][psql] ERROR: > muahahaha > 2025-03-19 19:00:06.404 EDT [2156613][client backend][0/0:43139][psql] > STATEMENT: DROP TABLE foo; > 2025-03-19 19:00:06.404 EDT [2156613][client backend][0/0:43139][psql] > WARNING: AbortTransaction while in COMMIT state > 2025-03-19 19:00:06.404 EDT [2156613][client backend][0/0:43139][psql] PANIC: > cannot abort transaction 43139, it was already committed > > Obviously not great, but better than corruption.
Yeah, I called that a crypto-critical-section over in this thread: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ZYw8gVOMF9gfp6i5%40pryzbyj2023
