Re: pg15b3: recovery fails with wal prefetch enabled

At Thu, 1 Sep 2022 12:05:36 +1200, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 2:01 AM Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> wrote:
> > < 2022-08-31 08:44:10.495 CDT >LOG: checkpoint starting: end-of-recovery immediate wait
> > < 2022-08-31 08:44:10.609 CDT >LOG: request to flush past end of generated WAL; request 1201/1CAF84F0, current position 1201/1CADB730
> > < 2022-08-31 08:44:10.609 CDT >CONTEXT: writing block 0 of relation base/16881/2840_vm
> > < 2022-08-31 08:44:10.609 CDT >ERROR: xlog flush request 1201/1CAF84F0 is not satisfied --- flushed only to 1201/1CADB730
> > < 2022-08-31 08:44:10.609 CDT >CONTEXT: writing block 0 of relation base/16881/2840_vm
> > < 2022-08-31 08:44:10.609 CDT >FATAL: checkpoint request failed
> >
> > I was able to start it with -c recovery_prefetch=no, so it seems like
> > prefetch tried to do too much. The VM runs centos7 under qemu.
> > I'm making a copy of the data dir in cases it's needed.

Just for information, there was a fixed bug about
overwrite-aborted-contrecord feature, which causes this kind of
failure (xlog flush request exceeds insertion bleeding edge). If it is
that, it has been fixed by 6672d79139 two-days ago.

http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-t7umki=PK8dT1tcPV=mOUe2vNhHML6b3T7W7qqvvajjg@mail.gmail.com
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regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center