From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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To: | Nikhil Sontakke <nikhil(dot)sontakke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Fwd: index corruption in PG 8.3.13 |
Date: | 2011-03-11 18:21:20 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTik9ds9+a=JROSvEvqD5LK0tST7LnYvtgBnuOVQb@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Nikhil Sontakke
<nikhil(dot)sontakke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure, but I doubt it. If the VACUUM FULL committed, then the
>> WAL records should be on disk, but if the immediate shutdown happened
>> while it was still running, then the WAL records might still be in
>> wal_buffers, in which case I don't think they'll get written out and
>> thus zero pages in the index are to be expected.
>>...
>
> Oh yeah, so if VF committed, the xlog should have been ok too, but
> can't say the same about the shared buffers.
But there was a later block that *was* written out. What was the LSN
on that block? everything in the WAL log should have been fsynced up
to that point when that buffer was flushed.
Was there a machine restart in the picture as well?
--
greg
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