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Re: prevent immature WAL streaming

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, 蔡梦娟(玊于) <mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com>, Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>
Date: 2021-09-01T17:00:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2021-09-01 15:01:43 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> Thanks for clarifying that! Unless I misunderstand that, when recovery ends
> at a partially-flushed segment-spanning record, it sets
> XLP_FIRST_IS_ABORTED_PARTIAL in the next segment before starting writing
> new WAL data there. Therefore XLP_FIRST_IS_CONTRECORD or
> XLP_FIRST_IS_ABORTED_PARTIAL must be set in the next segment following
> a partially-flushed segment-spanning record. If none of them is set,
> the validation code in recovery should report an error.

Right. With the small addition that I think we shouldn't just do this for
segment spanning records, but for all records spanning pages.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Fix determination of broken LSN in OVERWRITTEN_CONTRECORD

  2. Fix instability in 026_overwrite_contrecord.pl test.

  3. Fix typo

  4. Change recently added test code for stability

  5. Remove unstable, unnecessary test; fix typo

  6. Repair two portability oversights of new test

  7. Fix WAL replay in presence of an incomplete record

  8. Document XLOG_INCLUDE_XID a little better

  9. Revert "Avoid creating archive status ".ready" files too early"

  10. Avoid creating archive status ".ready" files too early

  11. Fix scenario where streaming standby gets stuck at a continuation record.

  12. Teach xlogreader to follow timeline switches

  13. Forbid using pg_xlogfile_name() and pg_xlogfile_name_offset() during