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Re: prevent immature WAL streaming

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, "masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com" <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, "mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com" <mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com>, "Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com" <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>, Ryo Matsumura <matsumura.ryo@fujitsu.com>
Date: 2021-11-25T18:52:10Z
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Oh, but also I think I should push a mitigation in case a production
> system hits this problem: maybe reduce the message from FATAL to WARNING
> if the registered LSN is at a page boundary.

Uh, why?  The fix should remove the problem, and if it doesn't, we're
still looking at inconsistent WAL aren't we?

			regards, tom lane

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