On 4/4/24 19:38, Robert Haas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday, Tomas Vondra reported to me off-list that he was seeing
> what appeared to be data corruption after taking and restoring an
> incremental backup. Overnight, Jakub Wartak further experimented with
> Tomas's test case, did some initial analysis, and made it very easy to
> reproduce. I spent this morning tracking down the problem, for which I
> attach a patch.
>
Thanks, I can confirm this fixes the issue I've observed/reported. On
master 10 out of 10 runs failed, with the patch no failures.
The test is very simple:
1) init pgbench
2) full backup
3) run short pgbench
4) incremental backup
5) compare pg_dumpall on the instance vs. restored backup
regards
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Tomas Vondra
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