Re: incremental backup breakage in BlockRefTableEntryGetBlocks

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Jakub Wartak <jakub(dot)wartak(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: incremental backup breakage in BlockRefTableEntryGetBlocks
Date: 2024-04-04 19:11:27
Message-ID: c5d73d14-f818-462c-97de-c32bf8133777@enterprisedb.com
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On 4/4/24 19:38, Robert Haas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday, Tomas Vondra reported to me off-list that he was seeing
> what appeared to be data corruption after taking and restoring an
> incremental backup. Overnight, Jakub Wartak further experimented with
> Tomas's test case, did some initial analysis, and made it very easy to
> reproduce. I spent this morning tracking down the problem, for which I
> attach a patch.
>

Thanks, I can confirm this fixes the issue I've observed/reported. On
master 10 out of 10 runs failed, with the patch no failures.

The test is very simple:

1) init pgbench
2) full backup
3) run short pgbench
4) incremental backup
5) compare pg_dumpall on the instance vs. restored backup

regards

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Tomas Vondra
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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