Re: base backup vs. concurrent truncation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 10:56 AM Aleksander Alekseev
<aleksander@timescale.com> wrote:
> > Assuming this is the case perhaps we can reduce the scenario and
> > consider this simpler one:
> >
> > 1. The table is truncated
> > 2. The DBMS is killed before making a checkpoint
> > 3. We are in recovery and presumably see a pair of 0.5 Gb segments
> >
> > Or can't we?
>
> Oh, I see. If the process will be killed this perhaps is not going to
> happen. Whether this can happen if we pull the plug from the machine
> is probably a design implementation of the particular filesystem and
> whether it's journaled.

Right. I mentioned that scenario in the original email:

"Furthermore, I think that the problem could arise without performing a
backup at all: say that the server crashes on the OS level in
mid-truncation, and the truncation of segment 0 reaches disk but the
removal of segment 1 does not."

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Robert Haas
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