Re: regression test failed when enabling checksum - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: regression test failed when enabling checksum
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Msg-id 1364867589.7580.296.camel@sussancws0025
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In response to Re: regression test failed when enabling checksum  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: regression test failed when enabling checksum
Re: regression test failed when enabling checksum
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On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 10:37 -0700, Jeff Janes wrote:

> Over 10,000 cycles of crash and recovery, I encountered two cases of
> checksum failures after recovery, example:
> 
> 
> 14264 SELECT 2013-03-28 13:08:38.980 PDT:WARNING:  page verification
> failed, calculated checksum 7017 but expected 1098
> 14264 SELECT 2013-03-28 13:08:38.980 PDT:ERROR:  invalid page in block
> 77 of relation base/16384/2088965
> 
> 14264 SELECT 2013-03-28 13:08:38.980 PDT:STATEMENT:  select sum(count)
> from foo

It would be nice to know whether that's an index or a heap page.

> 
> In both cases, the bad block (77 in this case) is the same block that
> was intentionally partially-written during the "crash".  However, that
> block should have been restored from the WAL FPW, so its fragmented
> nature should not have been present in order to be detected.  Any idea
> what is going on?  

Not right now. My primary suspect is what's going on in
visibilitymap_set() and heap_xlog_visible(), which is more complex than
some of the other code. That would require some VACUUM activity, which
isn't in your workload -- do you think autovacuum may kick in sometimes?

Thank you for testing! I will try to reproduce it, as well.

Regards,Jeff Davis




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