Re: Adding a TAP test checking data consistency on standby with minRecoveryPoint

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:

>> How? It's OK (and normal) for in-core pages to have newer LSNs than
>> minRecoveryPoint, it's only on-disk pages that must not be more
>> recent than that. And pageinspect will show the in-core page...

Michael> If the standby is stopped cleanly once, what's in shared
Michael> buffers gets flushed to disk by the checkpointer once at
Michael> shutdown, forcing minRecoveryPoint to be updated by the
Michael> checkpointer, and that update was not happening beforethe fix.
Michael> And once the standby is started again, what's on disk gets
Michael> reloaded, showing the inconsistency.

Ah, I missed that you were shutting down.

I think it would be nice to have a test that didn't rely on that, too.

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