Re: Can there ever be out of sequence WAL files?

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can there ever be out of sequence WAL files?
Date: 2022-01-17 07:15:30
Message-ID: YeUXkpwwv+E25gRm@paquier.xyz
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 12:23:00PM +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 01:10:25PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> xlog.c can be a good read to check the assumptions WAL replay relies
>> on, with things like CheckRecoveryConsistency() or
>> reachedConsistency.
>
> That should only stand for a WAL expected to be missing right? For something
> unexpected it should fail in XLogReadRecord() when trying to fetch a missing
> block?

Sure, as well as there are sanity checks related to invalid page
references when it comes to the consistency checks.
--
Michael

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