Re: BUG: Cascading standby fails to reconnect after falling back to archive recovery

From: Marco Nenciarini <marco(dot)nenciarini(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG: Cascading standby fails to reconnect after falling back to archive recovery
Date: 2026-03-16 21:49:44
Message-ID: CA+nrD2dRNzWAxc227uqy5tdFEk-UmK7R5965GYL9yzLzP+g6+Q@mail.gmail.com
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Attached is a v2 patch that implements the "handshake clamp" approach
Xuneng suggested. Rather than tracking lastStreamedFlush in
process-local state (which doesn't survive a cascade restart, as
Fujii-san demonstrated), it uses the WAL flush position already
returned by IDENTIFY_SYSTEM.

The walreceiver now checks the upstream's flush position before issuing
START_REPLICATION. If the requested startpoint is ahead (on the same
timeline), it waits for wal_retrieve_retry_interval and retries. This
works across restarts since it queries the upstream's live position on
every connection attempt, and requires no new state variables.

When timelines differ, we let START_REPLICATION handle the timeline
negotiation as before.

The patch includes a TAP test (053_cascade_reconnect.pl) that
reproduces the scenario and verifies the fix.

Attachment Content-Type Size
v2-0001-Fix-cascading-standby-reconnect-failure-after-arc.patch text/x-patch 15.0 KB

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