Re: BUG #13739: Recurring corrupted page pointer panics on hot-standby replica

I am somewhat surprised that BUG #13668 merits a response, and this one
does not.

Not a bug?
Won't fix?
Insufficient information?
Go away stop bothering us?
Something else?
Anything?

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:22:08AM +0000, michael(at)snupps(dot)com wrote:

> The following bug has been logged on the website:
> Bug reference: 13739
> Logged by: Michael Robinson
> Email address: michael(at)snupps(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.4.4
> Operating system: Ubuntu 14.04
> Description:
> Three days ago, we started getting corrupted page pointer panics on a hot
> standby replica (logs below).
> The replica is running on a dedicated EC2 instance, and has been running
> without any problems for several months. The build version is
> 9.4.4-1.pgdg14.04+1 from the apt repository, running on Ubuntu 14.04
> Trusty.
> The database is around 440GB, and is under constant moderate read-only
> load
> (100-1000 queries per second).
> There have been no issues with the master database, nor have there been any
> database shutdowns other than the panics.
>
>
> 2015-10-24 14:16:46.489 UTC PANIC: corrupted page pointers: lower = 17,
> upper = 0, special = 8176
> 2015-10-24 14:16:46.490 UTC CONTEXT: xlog redo unlink_page: rel
> 1663/16416/254063; dead 11796080; left 1365037; right 3024097; btpo_xact
> 64542957; leaf 2456241; leafleft 11130443; leafright 1350594; topparent
> 4294967295
> 2015-10-26 04:51:40.530 UTC PANIC: corrupted page pointers: lower = 17,
> upper = 0, special = 8176
> 2015-10-26 04:51:40.530 UTC CONTEXT: xlog redo unlink_page: rel
> 1663/16416/254063; dead 9922828; left 2449142; right 3415026; btpo_xact
> 64982371; leaf 2290440; leafleft 5120238; leafright 1903321; topparent
> 4294967295
> 2015-10-26 10:24:02.613 UTC PANIC: corrupted page pointers: lower = 17,
> upper = 0, special = 8176
> 2015-10-26 10:24:02.613 UTC CONTEXT: xlog redo unlink_page: rel
> 1663/16416/401628; dead 2348571; left 2348281; right 2351431; btpo_xact
> 65010718; leaf 2348740; leafleft 2348434; leafright 2351568; topparent
> 4294967295
> 2015-10-26 15:19:01.151 UTC PANIC: corrupted page pointers: lower = 17,
> upper = 0, special = 8176
> 2015-10-26 15:19:01.151 UTC CONTEXT: xlog redo unlink_page: rel
> 1663/16416/254063; dead 5840652; left 8909980; right 4074914; btpo_xact
> 65065726; leaf 3644712; leafleft 5129511; leafright 2786892; topparent
> 4294967295
> 2015-10-26 15:23:28.954 UTC LOG: unexpected pageaddr FD0/8738C000 in log
> segment 0000000100000FD0000000FD, offset 3719168
> 2015-10-26 15:26:03.937 UTC PANIC: corrupted page pointers: lower = 17,
> upper = 0, special = 8176
> 2015-10-26 15:26:03.937 UTC CONTEXT: xlog redo unlink_page: rel
> 1663/16416/254063; dead 5740451; left 9572720; right 1029949; btpo_xact
> 65067057; leaf 2948357; leafleft 5225678; leafright 805064; topparent
> 4294967295
> 2015-10-26 15:28:24.802 UTC LOG: unexpected pageaddr FD0/BBD18000 in log
> segment 0000000100000FD100000027, offset 13729792
> 2015-10-26 21:20:00.019 UTC PANIC: corrupted page pointers: lower = 17,
> upper = 0, special = 8176
> 2015-10-26 21:20:00.019 UTC CONTEXT: xlog redo unlink_page: rel
> 1663/16416/401628; dead 2706485; left 2706197; right 2706779; btpo_xact
> 65166073; leaf 2706583; leafleft 2706465; leafright 2706652; topparent
> 4294967295
> 2015-10-27 08:43:54.211 UTC PANIC: corrupted page pointers: lower = 17,
> upper = 0, special = 8176
> 2015-10-27 08:43:54.211 UTC CONTEXT: xlog redo unlink_page: rel
> 1663/16416/401628; dead 5287405; left 5287118; right 5287692; btpo_xact
> 65266215; leaf 5287560; leafleft 5287263; leafright 5287575; topparent
> 4294967295