corruption of WAL page header is never reported
Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
From: Yugo NAGATA <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2021-07-17T19:55:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Attachments
- report_corrupt_page_header.patch (text/x-diff) patch
Hello,
I found that any corruption of WAL page header found during recovery is never
reported in log messages. If wal page header is broken, it is detected in
XLogReaderValidatePageHeader called from XLogPageRead, but the error messages
are always reset and never reported.
if (!XLogReaderValidatePageHeader(xlogreader, targetPagePtr, readBuf))
{
/* reset any error XLogReaderValidatePageHeader() might have set */
xlogreader->errormsg_buf[0] = '\0';
goto next_record_is_invalid;
}
Since the commit 06687198018, we call XLogReaderValidatePageHeader here so that
we can check a page header and retry immediately if it's invalid, but the error
message is reset immediately and not reported. I guess the reason why the error
message is reset is because we might get the right WAL after some retries.
However, I think it is better to report the error for each check in order to let
users know the actual issues founded in the WAL.
I attached a patch to fix it in this way.
Or, if we wouldn't like to report an error for each check and also what we want
to check here is just about old recycled WAL instead of header corruption itself,
I wander that we could check just xlp_pageaddr instead of calling
XLogReaderValidatePageHeader.
Regards,
Yugo Nagata
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Yugo NAGATA <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Commits
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Make recovery report error message when invalid page header is found.
- 7b03d3a3ba45 12.17 landed
- 5dc093eacef1 13.13 landed
- 2f13e8d9ec28 14.10 landed
- 68601985e699 15.0 landed
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Fix scenario where streaming standby gets stuck at a continuation record.
- 066871980183 11.0 cited