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Re: backup manifests and contemporaneous buildfarm failures

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Suraj Kharage <suraj.kharage@enterprisedb.com>, tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar.raghuwanshi@enterprisedb.com>, Rushabh Lathia <rushabh.lathia@gmail.com>, Tels <nospam-pg-abuse@bloodgate.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Jeevan Chalke <jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Date: 2020-04-04T14:57:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Try to avoid compiler warnings in optimized builds.

  2. Fix option related issues in pg_verifybackup.

  3. Add index term for backup manifest in documentation.

  4. Code review for backup manifest.

  5. Document the backup manifest file format.

  6. Fix typo in pg_validatebackup documentation.

  7. Exclude backup_manifest file that existed in database, from BASE_BACKUP.

  8. Msys2 tweaks for pg_validatebackup corruption test

  9. Fix resource management bug with replication=database.

  10. Be more careful about time_t vs. pg_time_t in basebackup.c.

  11. pg_validatebackup: Fix 'make clean' to remove tmp_check.

  12. pg_validatebackup: Also use perl2host in TAP tests.

  13. Generate backup manifests for base backups, and validate them.

  14. Add checksum helper functions.

  15. pg_waldump: Add a --quiet option.

  16. Catversion bump for b9b408c48724

  17. pg_basebackup: Refactor code for reading COPY and tar data.

  18. Use a ResourceOwner to track buffer pins in all cases.

  19. Use ARMv8 CRC instructions where available.

  20. Logical replication support for initial data copy

  21. Use Intel SSE 4.2 CRC instructions where available.

  22. Switch to CRC-32C in WAL and other places.

  23. Remove support for 64-bit CRC.

  24. Change CRCs in WAL records from 64bit to 32bit for performance reasons.

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> hyrax's last run was before any of this happened, so it seems to have
> an unrelated problem. The last two runs, three and six days ago, both
> failed like this:

> -ERROR:  stack depth limit exceeded
> +ERROR:  stack depth limit exceeded at character 8

> Not sure what that's about.

What it looks like is that hyrax is managing to detect stack overflow
at a point where an errcontext callback is active that adds an error
cursor to the failure.

It's not so surprising that we could get a different result that way
from a CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS animal like hyrax, since CCA-forced
cache reloads would cause extra stack expenditure at a lot of places.
And it could vary depending on totally random details, like the number
of local variables in seemingly unrelated code.  What is odd is that
(AFAIR) we've never seen this before.  Maybe somebody recently added
an error cursor callback in a place that didn't have it before, and
is involved in SQL-function processing?  None of the commits leading
up to the earlier failure look promising for that, though.

			regards, tom lane