From: | Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pg_upgrade should truncate/remove its logs before running |
Date: | 2021-12-15 21:12:12 |
Message-ID: | 20211215211212.GT17618@telsasoft.com |
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On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 04:09:16PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 08:50:17PM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > I have seen this numerous times but had not dug into it, until now.
> >
> > If pg_upgrade fails and is re-run, it appends to its logfiles, which is
> > confusing since, if it fails again, it then looks like the original error
> > recurred and wasn't fixed. The "append" behavior dates back to 717f6d608.
> >
> > I think it should either truncate the logfiles, or error early if any of the
> > files exist. Or it could put all its output files into a newly-created
> > subdirectory. Or this message could be output to the per-db logfiles, and not
> > just the static ones:
> > | "pg_upgrade run on %s".
> >
> > For the per-db logfiels with OIDs in their name, changing open() from "append"
> > mode to truncate mode doesn't work, since they're written to in parallel.
> > They have to be removed/truncated in advance.
> >
> > This is one possible fix. You can test its effect by deliberately breaking one
> > of the calls to exec_progs(), like this.
> >
> > - "\"%s/pg_restore\" %s %s --exit-on-error --verbose "
> > + "\"%s/pg_restore\" %s %s --exit-on-error --verboose "
>
> Uh, the database server doesn't erase its logs on crash/failure, so why
> should pg_upgrade do that?
To avoid the presence of irrelevant errors from the previous invocation of
pg_upgrade.
Maybe you would prefer one of my other ideas , like "put all its output files
into a newly-created subdirectory" ?
--
Justin
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