Re: page corruption on 8.3+ that makes it to standby

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: page corruption on 8.3+ that makes it to standby
Date: 2010-07-28 17:28:23
Message-ID: 1280338103.9421.32.camel@jdavis
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On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 13:18 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> In Jeff's original example, he crashes the database
> after extending the relation but before initializing and writing the
> new page. I believe that at that point no XLOG has been written yet,
> so the relation has been extended but there is no WAL to be sent to
> the standby. So now you have the exact situation you're concerned
> about - the relation has been extended on the master but not on the
> standby. As far as I can see, this is an unavoidable consequence of
> the fact that we don't XLOG the act of extending the relation.
> Worrying about it only in the specific context of ALTER TABLE .. SET
> TABLESPACE seems backwards; if there are any bugs there, we're in for
> it.

That's a very good point. Now I'm leaning more toward your fix.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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