Author: Noah Misch Commit: Noah Misch Add HINT for restartpoint race with KeepFileRestoredFromArchive(). The five commits ending at cc2c7d65fc27e877c9f407587b0b92d46cd6dd16 closed this race condition for v15+. For v14 through v10, add a HINT to discourage studying the cosmetic problem. Reviewed by FIXME. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220731061747.GA3692882@rfd.leadboat.com diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c index 5cdd01f..9c845b7 100644 --- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c +++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c @@ -3480,7 +3480,10 @@ XLogFileInit(XLogSegNo logsegno, bool *use_existent, bool use_lock) if (fd < 0) ereport(ERROR, (errcode_for_file_access(), - errmsg("could not open file \"%s\": %m", path))); + errmsg("could not open file \"%s\": %m", path), + (AmCheckpointerProcess() ? + errhint("This is known to fail occasionally during archive recovery, where it is harmless.") : + 0))); elog(DEBUG2, "done creating and filling new WAL file"); diff --git a/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c b/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c index 6688dee..e76daff 100644 --- a/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c +++ b/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c @@ -834,7 +834,10 @@ durable_rename_excl(const char *oldfile, const char *newfile, int elevel) ereport(elevel, (errcode_for_file_access(), errmsg("could not link file \"%s\" to \"%s\": %m", - oldfile, newfile))); + oldfile, newfile), + (AmCheckpointerProcess() ? + errhint("This is known to fail occasionally during archive recovery, where it is harmless.") : + 0))); return -1; } unlink(oldfile); @@ -844,7 +847,10 @@ durable_rename_excl(const char *oldfile, const char *newfile, int elevel) ereport(elevel, (errcode_for_file_access(), errmsg("could not rename file \"%s\" to \"%s\": %m", - oldfile, newfile))); + oldfile, newfile), + (AmCheckpointerProcess() ? + errhint("This is known to fail occasionally during archive recovery, where it is harmless.") : + 0))); return -1; } #endif