Re: bug of recovery?

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bug of recovery?
Date: 2011-09-27 05:59:44
Message-ID: 4E816650.80607@enterprisedb.com
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On 27.09.2011 00:28, Florian Pflug wrote:
> On Sep26, 2011, at 22:39 , Tom Lane wrote:
>> It might be worthwhile to invoke XLogCheckInvalidPages() as soon as
>> we (think we) have reached consistency, rather than leaving it to be
>> done only when we exit recovery mode.
>
> I believe we also need to prevent the creation of restart points before
> we've reached consistency.

Seems reasonable. We could still allow restartpoints when the hash table
is empty, though. And once we've reached consistency, we can throw an
error immediately in log_invalid_page(), instead of adding the entry in
the hash table.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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