Re: Issue on restore / recover

Hi postgresql is 9.4.9 on SUSE 11sp4 ... The backup is a filesystem backup with Networker.
I confirm that I handle WAL archiving and backup_label file was in place when I started the recovery. The table is Persistent (Relpersistence = 'p').
The postgresql was succesfully restored from another backup and now is up and running; i'm not able to provide further datails.
I try to reproduce the issue on a test environment.
I'll update the thread with further details as soon as I reproduce the issue.
Thanks to all
Best Regards
Gabriele

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> Il 2 gennaio 2018 alle 16.38 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> ha scritto:
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> flumbador(at)virgilio(dot)it wrote:
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> > >
> > During the restore 3 files were missing; these three files belong to a table with high transaction workload, and for sure during the backup many transactions had modified this table and those missing files. What is surprising to me is that even if the files were missing the recover phase ended successfully. I expect an error (for example file not found) raised when postgresql try to apply the wal entries related to this table and those files. After the recover I find that these three file has been created during recover but when I try to query the table I get the error:
> >
> > db4=# select count(*) from pgbench_accounts ;
> >
> > ERROR: could not read block 1999996 in file "pg_tblspc/16471/PG_9.4_201409291/16474/16593.15": read only 0 of 8192 bytes
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> > >
> Can you please get a backtrace from this error? I suspect that the
> problem here is that the planner is trying to estimate cardinality by
> descending a btree index, and failing because the index points to a part
> of the table that has been truncated. But if the table has been
> truncated because it's unlogged, then the index should have been
> truncated too; and if it's a permanent table, then it has been truncated
> improperly (because no index pointer to the truncated part should
> remain).
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> What files do exist for pg_tblspc/16471/PG_9.4_201409291/16474/16593* ?
> (In particular I'm curious about whether 16593.14 exists and what size
> it is)
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