Re: Print physical file path when checksum check fails

Thanks Andres,

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 5:30 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> HHi,
>
> On 2020-02-10 16:04:21 +0800, Hubert Zhang wrote:
> > Currently we only print block number and relation path when checksum
> check
> > fails. See example below:
> >
> > ERROR: invalid page in block 333571 of relation base/65959/656195
>
> > DBA complains that she needs additional work to calculate which physical
> > file is broken, since one physical file can only contain `RELSEG_SIZE`
> > number of blocks. For large tables, we need to use many physical files
> with
> > additional suffix, e.g. 656195.1, 656195.2 ...
> >
> > Is that a good idea to also print the physical file path in error
> message?
> > Like below:
> >
> > ERROR: invalid page in block 333571 of relation base/65959/656195, file
> > path base/65959/656195.2
>
> I think that'd be a nice improvement. But:
>
> I don't think the way you did it is right architecturally. The
> segmenting is really something that lives within md.c, and we shouldn't
> further expose it outside of that. And e.g. the undo patchset uses files
> with different segmentation - but still goes through bufmgr.c.
>
> I wonder if this partially signals that the checksum verification piece
> is architecturally done in the wrong place currently? It's imo not good
> that every place doing an smgrread() needs to separately verify
> checksums. OTOH, it doesn't really belong inside smgr.c.
>
>
> This layering issue was also encountered in
>
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=3eb77eba5a51780d5cf52cd66a9844cd4d26feb0
> so perhaps we should work to reuse the FileTag it introduces to
> represent segments, without hardcoding the specific segment size?
>
>
I checked the FileTag commit. It calls `register_xxx_segment` inside md.c
to store the sync request into a hashtable and used by checkpointer later.

Checksum verify is simpler. We could move the `PageIsVerified` into md.c
(mdread). But we can not elog error inside md.c because read buffer mode
RBM_ZERO_ON_ERROR is at bugmgr.c level.

One idea is to change save the error message(or the FileTag) at (e.g. a
static string in bufmgr.c) by calling `register_checksum_failure` inside
mdread in md.c.

As for your concern about the need to do checksum verify after every
smgrread, we now move the checksum verify logic into md.c, but we still
need to check the checksum verify result after smgrread and reset buffer to
zero if mode is RBM_ZERO_ON_ERROR.

If this idea is OK, I will submit the new PR.

Thanks

Hubert Zhang