Re: FSM corruption leading to errors

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>
Cc: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FSM corruption leading to errors
Date: 2016-10-24 03:59:18
Message-ID: CAB7nPqTOfWKiqpJdPaoHg27+Svsds487Ycx9whxoN3kbggTFTQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 10/20/16 10:15 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>
>>> 2) If anything is found, stop the server and delete the files manually.
>>> 3) Re-start the server.
>>> OK, that's troublesome and costly for large relations, but we know
>>> that's the safest way to go for any versions, and there is no need to
>>> complicate the code with any one-time repairing extensions.
>>
>> Wouldn't you need to run around to all your replicas and do that as well?
>
> Yeah...

Release notes refer to this page for methods to fix corrupted instances:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Free_Space_Map_Problems
I just typed something based on Pavan's upper method, feel free to
jump in and improve it as necessary.
--
Michael

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