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-rw-r--r--synapse/storage/databases/state/bg_updates.py16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/storage/databases/state/bg_updates.py b/synapse/storage/databases/state/bg_updates.py
index 5de70f31d2..fa9eadaca7 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/databases/state/bg_updates.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/databases/state/bg_updates.py
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ class StateBackgroundUpdateStore(StateGroupBackgroundUpdateStore):
     STATE_GROUP_DEDUPLICATION_UPDATE_NAME = "state_group_state_deduplication"
     STATE_GROUP_INDEX_UPDATE_NAME = "state_group_state_type_index"
     STATE_GROUPS_ROOM_INDEX_UPDATE_NAME = "state_groups_room_id_idx"
+    STATE_GROUP_EDGES_UNIQUE_INDEX_UPDATE_NAME = "state_group_edges_unique_idx"
 
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -217,6 +218,21 @@ class StateBackgroundUpdateStore(StateGroupBackgroundUpdateStore):
             columns=["room_id"],
         )
 
+        # `state_group_edges` can cause severe performance issues if duplicate
+        # rows are introduced, which can accidentally be done by well-meaning
+        # server admins when trying to restore a database dump, etc.
+        # See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11779.
+        # Introduce a unique index to guard against that.
+        self.db_pool.updates.register_background_index_update(
+            self.STATE_GROUP_EDGES_UNIQUE_INDEX_UPDATE_NAME,
+            index_name="state_group_edges_unique_idx",
+            table="state_group_edges",
+            columns=["state_group", "prev_state_group"],
+            unique=True,
+            # The old index was on (state_group) and was not unique.
+            replaces_index="state_group_edges_idx",
+        )
+
     async def _background_deduplicate_state(
         self, progress: dict, batch_size: int
     ) -> int: