Re: BUG #8397: pg_basebackup -x from new standby server sometimes causes Segmentation fault

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:05 AM, TAKATSUKA Haruka <harukat(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> Thanks for the response.
>
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 17:04:21 +0200
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> > (1) create new standby server dir by pg_basebackup without -x
>> > (2) start new standby server
>> > (3) pg_basebackup from new standby server with -x
>> > (!) when new standby has no WAL files in pg_xlog,
>> > new standby's wal sender crash
> (snip)
>> > Though pg_basebackup does not have to work in this rare case,
>> > we should insert something like "if (nWalFiles <= 0) ereport(...);".
>>
>> Yes, we definitely need better error checking there - a crash is never
>> the right answer.
>>
>> Does this happen only when you take a backup "really quickly" after
>> setting up the new standby,
>
> It's just this first case.
> Therefore, we recognize that it is the problem of how to use.

Yeah. Ok, for now I have the patch I applied yesterday that makes it
an error instead of a crash per your suggestion. And if I failed to
mention it, thanks for the report!

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