Re: hung backends stuck in spinlock heavy endless loop

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-01-15T22:03:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since it's possible the database is a loss, do you see any value in
> bootstrappinng it again with checksums turned on?  One point of note
> is that this is a brand spanking new SSD, maybe we nee to rule out
> hardware based corruption?

hm!  I bootstrapped a new database with checksums on, and lo,

[cds2 18347 2015-01-15 15:58:29.955 CST 1779]WARNING:  page
verification failed, calculated checksum 28520 but expected 28541
[cds2 18347 2015-01-15 15:58:29.955 CST 1779]CONTEXT:  SQL statement
"COPY lease_delete FROM
'/tmp/C1188732_onesiteproperty.lease_delete.csv' CSV HEADER"

merlin


Commits

  1. Improve hash_create's API for selecting simple-binary-key hash functions.

  2. Fix WAL-logging of B-tree "unlink halfdead page" operation.

  3. Fix backup-block numbering in redo of b-tree split.

  4. Cleanup of new b-tree page deletion code.

  5. Fix bug in the new B-tree incomplete-split code.

  6. Fix bug in new B-tree page deletion code.

  7. Fix rm_desc routine of b-tree page delete records.

  8. Make the handling of interrupted B-tree page splits more robust.

  9. Fix race condition in B-tree page deletion.