Revert "kvdb/postgres: remove global application level lock"

This reverts commit 43a1ca4f3d.

kvdb/postgres/db.go

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ func newPostgresBackend(ctx context.Context, config *Config, prefix string) (
 		Schema:                "public",
 		TableNamePrefix:       prefix,
 		SQLiteCmdReplacements: sqliteCmdReplacements,
+		WithTxLevelLock:       true,
 	}
 
 	return sqlbase.NewSqlBackend(ctx, cfg)

kvdb/sqlbase/db.go

@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ type Config struct {
 	// commands. Note that the sqlite keywords to be replaced are
 	// case-sensitive.
 	SQLiteCmdReplacements SQLiteCmdReplacements
+
+	// WithTxLevelLock when set will ensure that there is a transaction
+	// level lock.
+	WithTxLevelLock bool
 }
 
 // db holds a reference to the sql db connection.
@@ -75,6 +79,10 @@ type db struct {
 	// db is the underlying database connection instance.
 	db *sql.DB
 
+	// lock is the global write lock that ensures single writer. This is
+	// only used if cfg.WithTxLevelLock is set.
+	lock sync.RWMutex
+
 	// table is the name of the table that contains the data for all
 	// top-level buckets that have keys that cannot be mapped to a distinct
 	// sql table.

kvdb/sqlbase/readwrite_tx.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ package sqlbase
 import (
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
+	"sync"
 
 	"github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet/walletdb"
 )
@@ -19,11 +20,28 @@ type readWriteTx struct {
 
 	// active is true if the transaction hasn't been committed yet.
 	active bool
+
+	// locker is a pointer to the global db lock.
+	locker sync.Locker
 }
 
 // newReadWriteTx creates an rw transaction using a connection from the
 // specified pool.
 func newReadWriteTx(db *db, readOnly bool) (*readWriteTx, error) {
+	locker := newNoopLocker()
+	if db.cfg.WithTxLevelLock {
+		// Obtain the global lock instance. An alternative here is to
+		// obtain a database lock from Postgres. Unfortunately there is
+		// no database-level lock in Postgres, meaning that each table
+		// would need to be locked individually. Perhaps an advisory
+		// lock could perform this function too.
+		locker = &db.lock
+		if readOnly {
+			locker = db.lock.RLocker()
+		}
+	}
+	locker.Lock()
+
 	// Start the transaction. Don't use the timeout context because it would
 	// be applied to the transaction as a whole. If possible, mark the
 	// transaction as read-only to make sure that potential programming
@@ -36,6 +54,7 @@ func newReadWriteTx(db *db, readOnly bool) (*readWriteTx, error) {
 		},
 	)
 	if err != nil {
+		locker.Unlock()
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
@@ -43,6 +62,7 @@ func newReadWriteTx(db *db, readOnly bool) (*readWriteTx, error) {
 		db:     db,
 		tx:     tx,
 		active: true,
+		locker: locker,
 	}, nil
 }
 
@@ -74,6 +94,7 @@ func (tx *readWriteTx) Rollback() error {
 
 	// Unlock the transaction regardless of the error result.
 	tx.active = false
+	tx.locker.Unlock()
 	return err
 }
 
@@ -141,6 +162,7 @@ func (tx *readWriteTx) Commit() error {
 
 	// Unlock the transaction regardless of the error result.
 	tx.active = false
+	tx.locker.Unlock()
 
 	return err
 }
@@ -182,3 +204,25 @@ func (tx *readWriteTx) Exec(query string, args ...interface{}) (sql.Result,
 
 	return tx.tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, args...)
 }
+
+// noopLocker is an implementation of a no-op sync.Locker.
+type noopLocker struct{}
+
+// newNoopLocker creates a new noopLocker.
+func newNoopLocker() sync.Locker {
+	return &noopLocker{}
+}
+
+// Lock is a noop.
+//
+// NOTE: this is part of the sync.Locker interface.
+func (n *noopLocker) Lock() {
+}
+
+// Unlock is a noop.
+//
+// NOTE: this is part of the sync.Locker interface.
+func (n *noopLocker) Unlock() {
+}
+
+var _ sync.Locker = (*noopLocker)(nil)