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Álvaro Herrera a2b4102a21 Fill testing gap for possible referential integrity violation
This commit adds a missing isolation test for (non-PERIOD) foreign keys.
With REPEATABLE READ, one transaction can insert a referencing row while
another deletes the referenced row, and both see a valid state.  But
after they have committed, the table violates referential integrity.

If the INSERT precedes the DELETE, we use a crosscheck snapshot to see
the just-added row, so that the DELETE can raise a foreign key error.
You can see the table violate referential integrity if you change
ri_restrict to pass false for detectNewRows to ri_PerformCheck.

A crosscheck snapshot is not needed when the DELETE comes first, because
the INSERT's trigger takes a FOR KEY SHARE lock that sees the row now
marked for deletion, waits for that transaction to commit, and raises a
serialization error.  I (Paul) added a test for that too though.

We already have a similar test (in ri-triggers.spec) for SERIALIZABLE
snapshot isolation showing that you can implement foreign keys with just
pl/pgSQL, but that test does nothing to validate ri_triggers.c.  We also
have tests (in fk-snapshot.spec) for other concurrency scenarios, but
not this one: we test concurrently deleting both the referencing and
referenced row, when the constraint activates a cascade/set null action.
But those tests don't exercise ri_restrict, and the consequence of
omitting a crosscheck comparison is different: a serialization failure,
not a referential integrity violation.

Author: Paul Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Rustam ALLAKOV <rustamallakov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+renyUp=xja80rBaB6NpY3RRdi750y046x28bo_xg29zKY72Q@mail.gmail.com
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