Re: DROP TABLESPACE causes panic during recovery - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: DROP TABLESPACE causes panic during recovery
Date
Msg-id 200410061733.i96HXtr01422@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: DROP TABLESPACE causes panic during recovery  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: DROP TABLESPACE causes panic during recovery
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Is this fixed?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > Maybe we could avoid removing it until the next checkpoint?  Or is that 
> > not enough.  Maybe it could stay there forever :/
> 
> Part of the problem here is that this code has to serve several
> purposes.  We have different scenarios to worry about:
> 
>     * crash recovery from the most recent checkpoint
> 
>     * PITR replay over a long interval (many checkpoints)
> 
>     * recovery in the face of a partially corrupt filesystem
> 
> It's the last one that is mostly bothering me at the moment.  I don't
> want us to throw away data simply because the filesystem forgot an
> inode.  Yeah, we might not have enough data in the WAL log to completely
> reconstruct a table, but we should push out what we do have, *not* toss
> it into the bit bucket.
> 
> In the first case (straight crash recovery) I think it is true that any
> reference to a missing file is a reference to a file that will get
> deleted before recovery finishes.  But I don't think that holds for PITR
> (we might be asked to stop short of where the table gets deleted) nor
> for the case where there's been filesystem damage.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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