Hi,

On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM Joel Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...
> Darn, I forgot about the edge-case where something fails in xact.c
> in between PreCommit_Notify(); and AtCommit_Notify();
> causing an abort.
>
> In this case, AtAbort_Notify() would need to undo the effect
> of the LISTEN/UNLISTEN commands that would already have been
> executed, with the 0003 patch.
>
> A normal BEGIN; LISTEN foo; ROLLBCK; is not a problem though,
> since that will never reach PreCommit_Notify().
>
> Just curious, what type of problems could cause an abort between
> PreCommit_Notify and AtCommit_Notify?
>

Serializable conflict could cause an abort after PreCommit_Notify.
0002 in [0] is an example of how it can be reproduced.

[0] 
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAE7r3MJgJj4D_6mPHMr-4xCrYK7q04M3jM1J_=4baphja2w...@mail.gmail.com


Best regards,
Arseniy Mukhin


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