Re: BUG #17928: Standby fails to decode WAL on termination of primary

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #17928: Standby fails to decode WAL on termination of primary
Date: 2023-08-14 10:28:54
Message-ID: CA+hUKGLOgGh=9siEhACUsrZEAQPVEQWgn35cggeci0_cNbPSSw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 3:56 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 2:08 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> > It seems to me that we should try to also finish the header validation
> > before attempting XLogReadRecordAlloc() on the total_len as well? It
> > looks like the end result would be to move the first ReadPageInternal
> > done for the header with all its cross-page checks before
> > XLogReadRecordAlloc(). That should remove the need of having
> > gotheader from v1.
>
> Yeah. Trying out an idea for how to untangle that...

Something like this... patches for 12 and master attached. Needs a
lot more testing. I really want to figure out how to get
deterministic tests...

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0001-Don-t-trust-unvalidated-xl_tot_len-v12.patch text/x-patch 5.5 KB
0001-Don-t-trust-unvalidated-xl_tot_len-master.patch text/x-patch 7.8 KB

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