Re: pgsql: Track block level checksum failures in pg_stat_database

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Track block level checksum failures in pg_stat_database
Date: 2019-05-01 07:55:55
Message-ID: CAOBaU_YNAmhMkpStNyafwFANek2MFY5J6u=VH_KF4k3EqEQtwQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:48 AM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:56 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 6:33 PM Tomas Vondra
> > > <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > >> It seems this commit forgot to add PgStat_MsgChecksumFailure to the
> > >> PgStat_Msg union.
> >
> > > Oops, indeed. That's embarrassing. Trivial fix attached if that helps.
> >
> > Seems like this exposes a generic weakness in the way pgstat.c is coded.
> > I'm inclined to adjust the switch logic in PgstatCollectorMain along
> > the lines of
> >
> > - pgstat_recv_inquiry((PgStat_MsgInquiry *) &msg, len);
> > + pgstat_recv_inquiry(&msg.msg_inquiry, len);
> >
> > so that you *couldn't* forget to extend the union, as long as you
> > followed the existing code's style.
>
> I'll send an updated patch tomorrow

Here's an updated version. It turns out that PgStat_MsgTempFile had
also been forgotten and never noticed.

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fix_pgstat_msg-v2.diff text/x-patch 4.2 KB

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