Re: backup manifests and contemporaneous buildfarm failures

Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, 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>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Jeevan Chalke <jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Date: 2020-04-07T13:42:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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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.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:37 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > Taking stock of the situation this morning, most of the buildfarm is
> > now green. There are three failures, on eelpout (6 hours ago),
> > fairywren (17 hours ago), and hyrax (3 days, 7 hours ago).
>
> fairywren has now done this twice in the pg_validatebackupCheck step:
>
> exec failed: Bad address at /home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm line 340.
>  at /home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm line 340.
>
> I'm a tad suspicious that it needs another perl2host()
> somewhere, but the log isn't very clear as to where.
>
> More generally, I wonder if we ought to be trying to
> centralize those perl2host() calls instead of sticking
> them into individual test cases.
>
>


Not sure about that. I'll see if I can run it by hand and get some
more info. What's quite odd is that jacana (a very similar setup) is
passing this happily.

cheers

andrew


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