Re: backup manifests and contemporaneous buildfarm failures

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

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: 2020-04-04T18:36:26Z
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:
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 10:57 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> 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.

> The relevant range of commits (e8b1774fc2 to a7b9d24e4e) includes an
> ereport change (bda6dedbea) and a couple of "simple expression"
> changes (8f59f6b9c0, fbc7a71608) but I don't know exactly why they
> would have caused this.

When I first noticed hyrax's failure, some days ago, I immediately
thought of the "simple expression" patch.  But that should not have
affected SQL-function processing in any way: the bulk of the changes
were in plpgsql, and even the changes in plancache could not be
relevant, because functions.c does not use the plancache.

As for ereport, you'd think that that would only matter once you were
already doing an ereport.  The point at which the stack overflow
check triggers should be in normal code, not error recovery.

> It seems at least possible, though, that
> changing the return type of functions involved in error reporting
> would slightly change the amount of stack space used;

Right, but if it's down to that sort of phase-of-the-moon codegen
difference, you'd think this failure would have been coming and
going for years.  I still suppose that some fairly recent change
must be contributing to this, but haven't had time to investigate.

> Other than experimenting on
> that machine, I'm not sure how we could really determine the relevant
> factors here.

We don't have a lot of CCA buildfarm machines, so I'm suspecting that
it's probably not that hard to repro if you build with CCA.

			regards, tom lane