Re: Wal sender process not moving past wait_event_type: IO and wait_event: WALRead - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Kyotaro Horiguchi
Subject Re: Wal sender process not moving past wait_event_type: IO and wait_event: WALRead
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Msg-id 20220225.105128.1084863904723322700.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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In response to Wal sender process not moving past wait_event_type: IO and wait_event: WALRead  (Anurag Shrivastava <anurag.shrivastava@hevodata.com>)
Responses Re: Wal sender process not moving past wait_event_type: IO and wait_event: WALRead  (Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>)
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(I don't think this is a bug report..)

At Thu, 24 Feb 2022 19:51:41 +0530, Anurag Shrivastava <anurag.shrivastava@hevodata.com> wrote in 
> Hi Postgres team,
> We are facing an issue where we are unable to read data from a logical
> replication slot after a certain period of time. Every time after dropping
> the slot, it works fine for a few days and then again we are not able to
> read from the slot(we have been unable to find any queries that might be
> causing this issue). Each time the walsender process is getting stuck
> wait event type: IO and wait_event: WALRead. We've tried this with
> pgoutput, test_decoding and wal2json, with all three we have faced
> same issue.
> Is there a way to be able to read the data from the same slot?

I guess you can see lines in server log like this.

could not read from log segment %s, offset %d: %m
could not read from log segment %s, offset %d: read %d of %d

If so, there's a possibility that you have a bad block in the pg_wal
partition and periodically step on that block.  The slot drop causes
to skip the bad block to allow start replication, but WAL recycling
places the bad block in a future WAL segment file again and that
repeats.

(I'm not sure there's a case where write scceeds but read fails on the
same block.)

regards.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center



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