On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM Suraj Kharage
<suraj.kharage@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Upstream commit d696406a9b255546bc1716d07199103abd8bb785 [1] added the support for default extension version in \dx
outputand changed the query that fetches the extension list.
> The changed query seems problematic and might display duplicate entries of extension if the same object oid exists in
pg_description.
>
> If I understand correctly, after oid wraparound, it is possible that the existing oid from another catalog might be
usedagain for other catalog objects as per GetNewOidWithIndex().
> If this is true, then it is possible that oid exists in pg_description for an object will be used for extension oid,
andwe might get a duplicate entry in \dx output.
Yes your understanding is correct and there is a possibility of the
bug you mentioned.
> ```
> "FROM pg_catalog.pg_extension e "
> "LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n ON n.oid = e.extnamespace "
> "LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_description d ON d.objoid = e.oid "
> "LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_available_extensions() ae(name, default_version, comment) ON ae.name = e.extname "
> "AND d.classoid = 'pg_catalog.pg_extension'::pg_catalog.regclass\n",
> ```
>
> We may need to handle this by moving the AND condition to the left join for pg_catalog.pg_description, so that we
retrieveonly pg_extension entries from pg_description.
> Attaching the patch for the same.
>
> Thoughts?
>
Attached patch seems to be fixing the issue.
--
Regards,
Dilip Kumar
Google
