Re: [BUG] non archived WAL removed during production crash recovery

From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz
Cc: jgdr(at)dalibo(dot)com, masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [BUG] non archived WAL removed during production crash recovery
Date: 2020-04-23 05:05:46
Message-ID: 20200423.140546.1055476118690602079.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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FWIW, the test for 10- looks fine, but I have one qustion.

+ 'archive success reported in pg_stat_archiver for WAL segment $segment_name_

This seems intending to show an actual segment name in the message,
but it is really shown as "... WAL segment $segment_name_1". Is that
intended?

At Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:46:18 +0900, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote in
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 06:17:17PM +0200, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote:
> > I found an extra useless line of code in v9 patch. Please, find in
> > attachment v10. Sorry for this.
>
> Thanks for helping here, your changes make sense. This looks mostly
> fine to me except that part:
> +$standby1->poll_query_until('postgres',
> + qq{ SELECT pg_xlog_location_diff('$primary_lsn', pg_last_xlog_replay_location()) = 0 })
> + or die "Timed out while waiting for xlog replay";
> Here we should check if $primary_lsn is at least
> pg_last_xlog_replay_location(). Checking for an equality may stuck
> the test if more WAL gets replayed. For example you could have a
> concurrent autovacuum generating WAL.

Autovacuum is turned off in this case, but anyway other kinds of WAL
records can be generated.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

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