Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> In other words, based on my inserted logic, it appears that there are
> 5 and 6 backup blocks on a fairly regular basis.
> However in xlog.h it says:
> 8<--------------------------
> * If we backed up any disk blocks with the XLOG record, we use flag
> * bits in xl_info to signal it. We support backup of up to 4 disk
> * blocks per XLOG record.
> 8<--------------------------
> So is my logic to record number of backup blocks wrong, or is the
> comment wrong, or am I otherwise misunderstanding something?
The comment is correct, so you did something wrong. From memory,
there's a goto-label retry loop in that function; maybe you need
to zero your counters after the retry label?
regards, tom lane
