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[PATCH] Fix minRecoveryPoint not advanced past checkpoint in CreateRestartPoint

Adam Lee <adam8157@gmail.com> — 2026-03-31T10:43:53Z

When recovery_target_action=shutdown triggers, the checkpointer performs
a shutdown restartpoint via CreateRestartPoint. If a new CHECKPOINT
record was replayed shortly before the recovery target, the restartpoint
advances minRecoveryPoint to the end of that CHECKPOINT record. And the
following replay doesn't advance minRecoveryPoint, it's assumed that
flushing the buffers will do that as a side-effect.

But no-op records replayed after the CHECKPOINT (such as RESTORE_POINT) do
not dirty any pages, so the minRecoveryPoint is not updated as expected.
As a result, minRecoveryPoint in pg_control ends up behind the actual
replay position. This does not cause a recovery correctness issue,
however the inaccurate pg_controldata "Minimum recovery ending location"
prevents users or tools from using this value to verify that recovery
has reached a specific restore point.

Fix by reading the current replay position from shared memory after
advancing minRecoveryPoint to the checkpoint, and advancing it further
if replay has progressed past the checkpoint.

Reproducer:
  CHECKPOINT; SELECT pg_create_restore_point('test_rp');
  -- recover with recovery_target_name + recovery_target_action=shutdown
  -- pg_controldata shows minRecoveryPoint 104 bytes behind
---
 src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index 2c1c6f88b74..ec639054620 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -7868,11 +7868,34 @@ CreateRestartPoint(int flags)
 			{
 				ControlFile->minRecoveryPoint = lastCheckPointEndPtr;
 				ControlFile->minRecoveryPointTLI = lastCheckPoint.ThisTimeLineID;
+			}
+
+			/*
+			 * Also advance minRecoveryPoint past any WAL replayed after
+			 * the checkpoint.  Normally this happens as a side effect of
+			 * flushing dirty buffers, but during a shutdown restartpoint
+			 * there may be records between the checkpoint and the
+			 * recovery target that didn't dirty any buffers (e.g. a
+			 * RESTORE_POINT record).  Without this, a shutdown triggered
+			 * by recovery_target_action leaves minRecoveryPoint behind
+			 * the actual replay position.
+			 */
+			{
+				XLogRecPtr	replayPtr;
+				TimeLineID	replayTLI;
 
-				/* update local copy */
-				LocalMinRecoveryPoint = ControlFile->minRecoveryPoint;
-				LocalMinRecoveryPointTLI = ControlFile->minRecoveryPointTLI;
+				replayPtr = GetCurrentReplayRecPtr(&replayTLI);
+				if (ControlFile->minRecoveryPoint < replayPtr)
+				{
+					ControlFile->minRecoveryPoint = replayPtr;
+					ControlFile->minRecoveryPointTLI = replayTLI;
+				}
 			}
+
+			/* update local copy */
+			LocalMinRecoveryPoint = ControlFile->minRecoveryPoint;
+			LocalMinRecoveryPointTLI = ControlFile->minRecoveryPointTLI;
+
 			if (flags & CHECKPOINT_IS_SHUTDOWN)
 				ControlFile->state = DB_SHUTDOWNED_IN_RECOVERY;
 		}
-- 
2.47.3


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