Re: Endless recovery

From: Hans-Juergen Schoenig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Endless recovery
Date: 2008-02-11 10:50:00
Message-ID: 1D1D7200-4C5C-46DA-A517-70CEB623208A@cybertec.at
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>
> I'm sorry to hear about this problem.

No worries - nothing lost ...

>
> Not sure we need a LOG message to warn people about the possible
> length
> of recovery time. The chances of a recovery taking that much time seem
> very low for normal Postgres, even with checkpoint parameters set at
> their maximum values.

It should be quite low - this is what we expected.

>
> I note that the configuration section does not mention the likely
> increase in recovery time that will result from setting those
> parameters
> higher. That needs a patch. ISTM a serious omission that should be
> treated as a bug and backpatched.
>

I have that feeling too - it could very well be some Gist issue in
here but given what we have seen in the debugger this was not too
obvious.
At first glance it rather felt like a full check of the entire index.

best regards,

hans

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