Re: Log files polluted with permission denied error messages after every 10 seconds

From: Andrus <kobruleht2(at)hot(dot)ee>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Log files polluted with permission denied error messages after every 10 seconds
Date: 2021-03-06 17:53:11
Message-ID: c3541c40-00d9-aeb6-1a97-43d6c4e37d94@hot.ee
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Hi!

These are generated on Windows when removing a past WAL segment, where
the process involves a rename followed by durable_unlink() that would
> generate some LOG entries in the logs if the internal unlink() failed
> (see RemoveXlogFile() in xlog.c).

I changed wal_recycle to off. So checkpointer should no more try to
rename wal files. Iit still tries to rename files. No idea way it does
not use this setting:

2021-03-06 19:44:28 EET     checkpointer LOG:  could not rename file
"pg_wal/0000000100000006000000EB": Permission denied

2021-03-06 19:44:38 EET     checkpointer LOG:  could not rename file
"pg_wal/0000000100000006000000F0": Permission denied
2021-03-06 19:44:48 EET     checkpointer LOG:  could not rename file
"pg_wal/0000000100000006000000F7": Permission denied
2021-03-06 19:44:58 EET     checkpointer LOG:  could not rename file
"pg_wal/0000000100000006000000FB": Permission denied
2021-03-06 19:45:08 EET     postmaster LOG:  received SIGHUP, reloading
configuration files
2021-03-06 19:45:08 EET     postmaster LOG:  parameter "wal_recycle"
changed to "off"
2021-03-06 19:45:08 EET     checkpointer LOG:  could not rename file
"pg_wal/0000000100000006000000FE": Permission denied
2021-03-06 19:45:18 EET     checkpointer LOG:  could not rename file
"pg_wal/0000000100000006000000FF": Permission denied
2021-03-06 19:45:28 EET     checkpointer LOG:  could not rename file
"pg_wal/000000010000000700000000": Permission denied
2021-03-06 19:45:38 EET     checkpointer LOG:  could not rename file
"pg_wal/000000010000000700000002": Permission denied
2021-03-06 19:45:48 EET     checkpointer LOG:  could not rename file
"pg_wal/000000010000000700000011": Permission denied
2021-03-06 19:45:59 EET     checkpointer LOG:  could not rename file
"pg_wal/000000010000000700000012": Permission denied

2021-03-06 19:46:09 EET     checkpointer LOG:  could not rename file
"pg_wal/000000010000000700000015": Permission denied

2021-03-06 19:46:19 EET     checkpointer LOG:  could not rename file
"pg_wal/000000010000000700000016": Permission denied

Should chekpointer process terminated to force it to use new setting. Is
it safe to kill it during database usage.

Andrus.

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