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Re: BUG: Cascading standby fails to reconnect after falling back to archive recovery

Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com> — 2026-05-01T02:57:08Z

Hi Marco,

On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 12:50 AM Marco Nenciarini <
marco.nenciarini@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> v7 patches attached.  No code changes from v6, just rebased on
> current master to remove minor offset, and the backpatch file is
> renamed with a "nocfbot-" prefix so the commitfest bot picks up
> only the master patch.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 6:00 PM Marco Nenciarini <
> marco.nenciarini@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
>> Registered in PG20-1: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/6716/
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 11:52 AM Marco Nenciarini <
>> marco.nenciarini@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Here are the v6 patches.
>>>
>>> Xuneng correctly pointed out that RequestXLogStreaming rounds down,
>>> not up, so it isn't the cause of the gap.  The actual mechanism is
>>> that archive recovery processes whole segment files: after both nodes
>>> replay the same archived segment N, the cascade's next read position
>>> lands at the start of segment N+1, while the upstream's
>>> GetStandbyFlushRecPtr returns replayPtr inside segment N.
>>>
>>> Changes from v5:
>>>
>>> - Updated the code comment and commit message to describe the correct
>>>   root cause (archive recovery segment granularity, not
>>>   RequestXLogStreaming truncation).
>>>
>>> - Reset the catchup state when the upstream is no longer behind.
>>>   Without this, if the walreceiver successfully streams, the
>>>   connection breaks, and it loops back to find itself ahead again,
>>>   the stale deadline from the previous wait would cause an immediate
>>>   timeout.
>>>
>>> Two patches attached: v6-0001 for master (extends the
>>> walrcv_identify_system API) and v6-backpatch-0001 for stable branches
>>> (global variable to preserve ABI).
>>>
>>
Polling at intervals stil seems not good to me. But I don't have a better
idea for now.

-- 
Best,
Xuneng