Re: Bug in ProcArrayApplyRecoveryInfo for snapshots crossing 4B, breaking replicas

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-01-27T19:33:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 1/26/22 23:54, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 07:31:00PM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> I actually tried doing that, but I was not very happy with the result. The
>> test has to call pg_resetwal, but then it also has to fake pg_xact data and
>> so on, which seemed a bit ugly so did not include the test in the patch.
> 
> Indeed, the dependency to /dev/zero is not good either.  The patch
> logic looks good to me.

OK, I've pushed the patch. We may consider adding a TAP test later, if 
we find a reasonably clean approach.


regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra
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Commits

  1. Fix ordering of XIDs in ProcArrayApplyRecoveryInfo