Hello,
Our customer hit another bug of pg_rewind with PG 9.5. The attached patch fixes this.
PROBLEM
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After a long run of successful pg_rewind, the synchronized standby could not catch up the primary forever, emitting the
followingmessage repeatedly:
LOG: XX000: could not read from log segment 000000060000028A00000031, offset 16384: No error
CAUSE
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If the primary removes WAL files that pg_rewind is going to get, pg_rewind leaves 0-byte WAL files in the target
directoryhere:
[libpq_fetch.c]
case FILE_ACTION_COPY:
/* Truncate the old file out of the way, if any */
open_target_file(entry->path, true);
fetch_file_range(entry->path, 0, entry->newsize);
break;
pg_rewind completes successfully, create recovery.conf, and then start the standby in the target cluster. walreceiver
receivesWAL records and write them to the 0-byte WAL files. Finally, xlog reader complains that he cannot read a WAL
page.
FIX
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pg_rewind deletes the file when it finds that the primary has deleted it.
OTHER THOUGHTS
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BTW, should pg_rewind really copy WAL files from the primary? If the sole purpose of pg_rewind is to recover an
instanceto use as a standby, can pg_rewind just remove all WAL files in the target directory, because the standby can
getWAL files from the primary and/or archive?
Related to this, shouldn't pg_rewind avoid copying more files and directories like pg_basebackup? Currently, pg_rewind
doesn'tcopy postmaster.pid, postmaster.opts, and temporary files/directories (pg_sql_tmp/).
Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa
