Hi
Take the following cluster with:
- node1 (initial primary)
- node2 (standby)
- node3 (standby)
Following activity takes place (greatly simplified from a real-world situation):
1. node1 is shut down.
2. node3 is promoted
3. node2 is attached to node3.
4. node1 is attached to node3
5. node1 is then promoted (creating a split brain situation with
node1 and node3 as primaries)
6. node2 and node3 are shut down (in that order).
7. pg_rewind is executed to reset node2 so it can reattach
to node1 as a standby. pg_rewind claims:
pg_rewind: servers diverged at WAL location X/XXXXXXX on timeline 2
pg_rewind: no rewind required
8. based off that assurance, node2 is restarted with replication configuration
pointing to node1 - but it is unable to attach, with node2's log reporting
something like:
new timeline 3 forked off current database system timeline 2
before current recovery point X/XXXXXXX
The cause is that pg_rewind is assuming that if the node's last
checkpoint matches the
divergence point, no rewind is needed:
if (chkptendrec == divergerec)
rewind_needed = false;
but in this case there *are* records beyond the last checkpoint, which can be
inferred from "minRecoveryPoint" - but this is not checked.
Attached patch addresses this. It includes a test, which doesn't make use of
the RewindTest module, as that hard-codes a primary and a standby, while here
three nodes are needed (I can't come up with a situation where this can be
reproduced with only two nodes). The test sets "wal_keep_size" so would need
modification for Pg12 and earlier.
Regards
Ian Barwick
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