Re: BUG #16812: Logical decoding error

Thanks. This was happening because Patroni was removing inactive replication slot.

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On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 07:06, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 2:55 PM PG Bug reporting form
> noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org wrote:
>
> > The following bug has been logged on the website:
> > Bug reference: 16812
> > Logged by: Mayur B.
> > Email address: mayur555b(at)protonmail(dot)com
> > PostgreSQL version: 12.3
> > Operating system: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
> > Description:
> > Hi,
> > We started receiving the logical decoding error :
> > ERROR: could not map filenode "base/16437/140990927" to relation OID
> > Database is PG 12.3 and Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS. There is no "vacuum full" or
> > CLUSTER happening. What could be other sources of this error?
>
> It is not clear to me how else this error can happen. However, I think
> this can happen due to some re-write of mapped relations as we don't
> maintain historic-view for mapped relations. Having said that, as far
> as I understand this shouldn't cause any problem because we anyway
> don't decode updates to catalog relations and we would have anyway
> skipped this operation. I am not sure maybe this could have been a LOG
> instead of ERROR.
>
> One way to figure what is going on here is to add a LOG message in
> apply_map_update to see the change relationId and then we might be
> able to track which exact operation has changed this. The other
> possibility could be to use pg_waldump to figure out the WAL record
> which leads to this error (maybe with the help of LSN, we can identify
> that).
>
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> With Regards,
> Amit Kapila.