Thread: Re: SV: Log files polluted with permission denied error messages after every 10 seconds

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:45:28AM +0200, Andrus wrote:
> In this server hopefully no. Application code contains xml parsing it but
> probably those queries are never running in this server.

Okay, cool.  I am going to send you privately two links to the builds
I am going to produce, 13.2 unpatched and 13.2 patched.
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Michael

Hi!

Okay, cool.  I am going to send you privately two links to the builds
I am going to produce, 13.2 unpatched and 13.2 patched.

I replaced files in 13.1 server with ones from your patched version. There are no errors in log file now for 8 hours.

Andrus.

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 09:00:10AM +0200, Andrus wrote:
> I replaced files in 13.1 server with ones from your patched version. There
> are no errors in log file now for 8 hours.

Yippee.  Thanks.

Have you tested the unpatched builds?  And did you see some errors
with them?
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Michael

Hi!

Have you tested the unpatched builds?  

No.

Andrus.

Hi! Today got 2 errors in patched version:

2021-03-20 20:31:27 EET     stats collector LOG:  could not rename temporary statistics file "pg_stat_tmp/global.tmp" to "pg_stat_tmp/global.stat": Permission denied 2021-03-20 20:51:25 EET     stats collector LOG:  could not rename temporary statistics file "pg_stat_tmp/global.tmp" to "pg_stat_tmp/global.stat": Permission denied

Andrus.

Hi!

Errors in pg_wal directory seems not to occur in patched version. Errors in pg_stat_tmp still occur. Yesterdays log introduces new error message

using stale statistics instead of current ones because stats collector is not responding

2021-03-21 03:02:23 EET     stats collector LOG:  could not rename temporary statistics file "pg_stat_tmp/global.tmp" to "pg_stat_tmp/global.stat": Permission denied
2021-03-21 13:31:00 EET     stats collector LOG:  could not rename temporary statistics file "pg_stat_tmp/global.tmp" to "pg_stat_tmp/global.stat": Permission denied
2021-03-21 15:15:52 EET     stats collector LOG:  could not rename temporary statistics file "pg_stat_tmp/global.tmp" to "pg_stat_tmp/global.stat": Permission denied
2021-03-21 23:51:20 EET     stats collector LOG:  could not rename temporary statistics file "pg_stat_tmp/global.tmp" to "pg_stat_tmp/global.stat": Permission denied
2021-03-21 23:51:25 EET     autovacuum worker LOG:  using stale statistics instead of current ones because stats collector is not responding

Andrus.

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 09:25:26AM +0200, Andrus wrote:
> Errors in pg_wal directory seems not to occur in patched version. Errors in
> pg_stat_tmp still occur. Yesterdays log introduces new error message
>
> using stale statistics instead of current ones because stats collector is
> not responding
>
> 2021-03-21 23:51:25 EET     autovacuum worker LOG:  using stale statistics
> instead of current ones because stats collector is not responding

The renaming of stats files involves just pgrename(), which is a
completely separate code path than the one of the WAL segments.  This
requires a separate investigation.
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Michael