Re: pg_waldump got an error with waldump file generated by initdb - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: pg_waldump got an error with waldump file generated by initdb
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Msg-id 20220710213900.fvqhubhyqktb4czf@awork3.anarazel.de
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In response to pg_waldump got an error with waldump file generated by initdb  (Dong Wook Lee <sh95119@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: pg_waldump got an error with waldump file generated by initdb
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Hi,

On 2022-07-10 21:51:04 +0900, Dong Wook Lee wrote:
> I don't know if this is an error.
> when I do ./initdb -D ../data and execute pg_waldump like this, In the last part I got an error.
> 
> ```
> ./pg_waldump ../data/pg_wal/000000010000000000000001
> ```
> 
> pg_waldump: error: error in WAL record at 0/1499990: invalid record length at 0/1499A08: wanted 24, got 0
> 
> my environment is `16devel on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0, 64-bit`
> Is this normal?

Yes, that's likely normal - i.e. pg_waldump has reached the point at which the
WAL ends.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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