Re: BUG #14243: pg_basebackup failes by a STATUS_DELETE_PENDING file

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>

From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>

To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, TAKATSUKA Haruka <harukat@sraoss.co.jp>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>

Date: 2016-09-29T07:31:16Z

Lists: pgsql-bugs

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> I gave this bug another try and let Windows run for some time but I
> cannot reproduce the original failure even with manual checkpointing
> and aggressive checkpoint_timeout, while truncating relations heavily
> with pgbench to enforce the deletion of relfilenodes. To all, do you
> think that having a large relfilenode file matters to trigger this
> issue?
>
> Could it be possible to get more testing as well? We won't go far as
> long as we have not checked that the issue gets fixed by the proposed
> patch in a place where the problem is able to show up.

I still cannot reproduce the original problem, so there is not much I
can do to validate the patch.. If someone has ways to check that the
fix works as expected that would be nice. For now I am marking this
patch as returned with feedback in the CF app until this happens.
-- 
Michael