Re: pg_waldump got an error with waldump file generated by initdb

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Dong Wook Lee <sh95119(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_waldump got an error with waldump file generated by initdb
Date: 2022-07-10 21:39:00
Message-ID: 20220710213900.fvqhubhyqktb4czf@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2022-07-10 21:51:04 +0900, Dong Wook Lee wrote:
> I don't know if this is an error.
> when I do ./initdb -D ../data and execute pg_waldump like this, In the last part I got an error.
>
> ```
> ./pg_waldump ../data/pg_wal/000000010000000000000001
> ```
>
> pg_waldump: error: error in WAL record at 0/1499990: invalid record length at 0/1499A08: wanted 24, got 0
>
> my environment is `16devel on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0, 64-bit`
> Is this normal?

Yes, that's likely normal - i.e. pg_waldump has reached the point at which the
WAL ends.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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