Re: min_safe_lsn column in pg_replication_slots view

On 2020-Jul-08, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > In absence of other suggestions I gave this the name XLogMBVarToSegs,
> > and redefined ConvertToXSegs to use that. Didn't touch callers in
> > xlog.c to avoid pointless churn. Pushed to both master and 13.
>
> The buildfarm's sparc64 members seem unhappy with this.

Hmm. Some of them are, yeah, but it's not universal. For example
mussurana and ibisbill are not showing failures.

Anyway the error is pretty strange: only GetWALAvailability is showing a
problem, but the size calculation in the view function def is returning
a negative number, as expected.

So looking at the code in GetWALAvailability, what happens is that
targetSeg >= oldestSlotSeg, but we expect the opposite. I'd bet for
targetSeg to be correct, since its input is just the slot LSN -- pretty
easy. But for oldestSlotSeg, we have KeepLogSeg involved.

No immediate ideas ...

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