Re: [HACKERS] StandbyRecoverPreparedTransactions recovers subtranslinks incorrectly - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: [HACKERS] StandbyRecoverPreparedTransactions recovers subtranslinks incorrectly
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Msg-id CANP8+j+L+pOBeSu7JeNSn1fGz7SO4p1mewKhqN7d4Xv9+7+EKQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] StandbyRecoverPreparedTransactions recovers subtrans links incorrectly  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] StandbyRecoverPreparedTransactions recovers subtranslinks incorrectly  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 23 April 2017 at 17:17, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>>> Also, when I fix that, it gets further but still crashes at the same
>>> Assert in SubTransSetParent.  The proximate cause this time seems to be
>>> that RecoverPreparedTransactions's calculation of overwriteOK is wrong:
>>> it's computing that as "false", but in reality the subtrans link in
>>> question has already been set.
>
>> Not sure about that, investigating.
>
> As a quick hack, I just hotwired RecoverPreparedTransactions to set
> overwriteOK = true always, and with that and the SubTransSetParent
> argument-order fix, HEAD passes the recovery tests.  Maybe we can
> be smarter than that, but this might be a good short-term fix to get
> the buildfarm green again.

That would work. I've been looking into a fix I can explain, but "do
it always" may actually be it.

OK, I'll do that.

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