Re: BUG #16927: Postgres can`t access WAL files

(Please keep pgsql-bugs in CC of this thread)

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:16:29AM +0200, Ярослав Пашинский wrote:
> 2021-03-15 00:08:20.563 EET [9936] LOG:  could not rename temporary
> statistics file "pg_stat_tmp/global.tmp" to "pg_stat_tmp/global.stat":
> Permission denied

This pattern is new.

> I got this error also after updating from 9.6 to 13.2

Oh, sorry, I did not understand your last message as you used the word
"updating", which sounded like you ran a set of minor updates for
multiple servers and saw the same issue across all those versions.
But what you mean is that you did one major upgrade, from 9.6 to 13.

> So, the solution could be to rollback to 9.6 and then update to 12.X
> version?

There has been a collection of reports lately with 13.X misbehaving
when it comes to the recycling of WAL segments:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3861ff1e-0923-7838-e826-094cc9bef737@hot.ee
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/16874-c3eecd319e36a2bf@postgresql.org
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/095ccf8d-7f58-d928-427c-b17ace23cae6@burgess.co.nz

Your report is the 4th one of its kind, and based on the data
collected up to now, 12.X or older major versions do not see the
issue.  I have begun a thread about the problem on -hackers, that's
too much to be a coincidence, and more than one version of Windows
sees the problem:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/YFBcRbnBiPdGZvfW@paquier.xyz
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Michael