Re: WAL replay failure after file truncation(?) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: WAL replay failure after file truncation(?)
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Msg-id 4295289A.5000504@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to WAL replay failure after file truncation(?)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: WAL replay failure after file truncation(?)
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> Plan B is for WAL replay to always be willing to extend the file to
> whatever record number is mentioned in the log, even though this
> may require inventing the contents of empty pages; we trust that their
> contents won't matter because they'll be truncated again later in the
> replay sequence.  This seems pretty messy though, especially for
> indexes.  The major objection to it is that it gives up error detection
> in real filesystem-corruption cases: we'll just silently build an
> invalid index and then try to run with it.  (Still, that might be better
> than refusing to start; at least you can REINDEX afterwards.)

You could at least log some sort of warning during the PITR process. 
Anyone running a PITR not paying attention to their logs is in trouble 
anyway...

Chris


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