> Well, bad news. After a few more tries to crash the backend, the whole
> postmaster crashed and didn't rise back.
> It fails to start up reporting "Apr 4 18:53:05 wale
> postgres[71618]: [9]
> FATAL 2: XLogWrite: write request is past end of log" to syslog.
Ok, this one is easy to fix. From Konstantin startup log:
...
> REDO @ 0/220716996; LSN 0/220717056: ... ^^^^^^^^^
End of 8K page!
...
> INSERT @ 0/220717064: prev 0/220716996; ... checkpoint ...
> XLogFlush: rqst 0/220717128; wrt 0/220717056; flsh 0/220717056
Checkpoint is the first record on new page. To satisfy
if (!XLByteLT(LogwrtResult.Write, XLogCtl->xlblocks[Write->curridx])) elog(STOP, "XLogWrite: write request is
pastend of log");
in XLogWrite() we have to initialize XLogCtl->xlblocks[0] to the next page
(where checkpoint will go) in StartupXLOG().
Still not related to original problem. But this is second bug discovered
since issue was rised -:)
Vadim
