Re: prevent immature WAL streaming

On 2021-Sep-03, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:

> At Thu, 2 Sep 2021 18:43:33 -0400, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote in

> The name sounds like the start LSN. doesn't contrecordAbort(ed)Ptr work?
>
> > if (!(pageHeader->xlp_info & XLP_FIRST_IS_CONTRECORD))
> > {
> > report_invalid_record(state,
> > "there is no contrecord flag at %X/%X",
> > LSN_FORMAT_ARGS(RecPtr));
> > + goto aborted_contrecord;
>
> This loses the exclusion check between XLP_FIRST_IS_CONTRECORD and
> _IS_ABROTED_PARTIAL. Is it okay? (I don't object to remove the check.).

On second thought, I'm not sure that we should make xlogreader report an
invalid record here. If we do, how is the user going to recover?
Recovery will stop there and lose whatever was written afterwards.
Maybe you could claim that if both bits are set then WAL is corrupted,
so it's okay to stop recovery. But if WAL is really corrupted, then the
CRC check will fail. All in all, I think I'd rather ignore the flag if
we see it set.

At most, we could have an

#ifndef FRONTEND
ereport(WARNING, "found unexpected flag xyz");
#endif

or something like that. However, xlogreader does not currently have
anything like that, so I'm not completely sure.

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