Re: prion failed with ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 14334 in pg_toast_2619

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
Subject: Re: prion failed with ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 14334 in pg_toast_2619
Date: 2021-05-16 20:34:06
Message-ID: CAH2-Wz=Pdfhd0Pc3g6odxkgBP9P6nsp1uaiR0JYRac9fYyYGrQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 1:23 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> it gets an insane value:
>
> oldestfxid 18446744071709568230, latest_completed 16613, oldestxid 2294983910
>
> And the reason oldestXID contains that is that pg_upgrade applied
> pg_resetwal, which does this:
>
> /*
> * For the moment, just set oldestXid to a value that will force
> * immediate autovacuum-for-wraparound. It's not clear whether adding
> * user control of this is useful, so let's just do something that's
> * reasonably safe. The magic constant here corresponds to the
> * maximum allowed value of autovacuum_freeze_max_age.
> */
> ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestXid = set_xid - 2000000000;
> if (ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestXid < FirstNormalTransactionId)
> ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestXid += FirstNormalTransactionId;

This same pg_resetwal code has probably caused quite a few problems on
pg_upgrade'd databases:

https://postgr.es/m/20210423234256.hwopuftipdmp3okf@alap3.anarazel.de

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Peter Geoghegan

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