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Re: BUG #17928: Standby fails to decode WAL on termination of primary

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

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From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>, Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Date: 2023-09-23T00:16:38Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs

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  1. Correct assertion and comments about XLogRecordMaxSize.

  2. Fix edge-case for xl_tot_len broken by bae868ca.

  3. Don't use Perl pack('Q') in 039_end_of_wal.pl.

  4. Don't trust unvalidated xl_tot_len.

  5. Make recovery report error message when invalid page header is found.

  6. Add more protections in WAL record APIs against overflows

On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 12:05 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> Looks pretty stable to me.  I can see one thing in wrasse related to
> pack():
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=wrasse&dt=2023-09-22%2023%3A23%3A23
> Invalid type 'Q' in pack at t/039_end_of_wal.pl line 139.

Oh, so although we were testing on 32 bit systems via CI (task
"test_world_32" on "Linux - Debian Bullseye - Meson"), in that case
the perl binary is still 64 bit.  Apparently 32 bit perl binary (at
least of a certain vintage) doesn't like 'Q'.