Introduce a new GUC recovery_prefetch. When enabled, look ahead in the
WAL and try to initiate asynchronous reading of referenced data blocks
that are not yet cached in our buffer pool. For now, this is done with
posix_fadvise(), which has several caveats. Since not all OSes have
that system call, "try" is provided so that it can be enabled where
available. Better mechanisms for asynchronous I/O are possible in later
work.
Set to "try" for now for test coverage. Default setting to be finalized
before release.
The GUC wal_decode_buffer_size limits the distance we can look ahead in
bytes of decoded data.
The existing GUC maintenance_io_concurrency is used to limit the number
of concurrent I/Os allowed, based on pessimistic heuristics used to
infer that I/Os have begun and completed. We'll also not look more than
maintenance_io_concurrency * 4 block references ahead.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Sait Talha Nisanci <Sait.Nisanci@microsoft.com> (earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq%3DAovOddfHpA%40mail.gmail.com
Previously the statistics collector received statistics updates via UDP and
shared statistics data by writing them out to temporary files regularly. These
files can reach tens of megabytes and are written out up to twice a
second. This has repeatedly prevented us from adding additional useful
statistics.
Now statistics are stored in shared memory. Statistics for variable-numbered
objects are stored in a dshash hashtable (backed by dynamic shared
memory). Fixed-numbered stats are stored in plain shared memory.
The header for pgstat.c contains an overview of the architecture.
The stats collector is not needed anymore, remove it.
By utilizing the transactional statistics drop infrastructure introduced in a
prior commit statistics entries cannot "leak" anymore. Previously leaked
statistics were dropped by pgstat_vacuum_stat(), called from [auto-]vacuum. On
systems with many small relations pgstat_vacuum_stat() could be quite
expensive.
Now that replicas drop statistics entries for dropped objects, it is not
necessary anymore to reset stats when starting from a cleanly shut down
replica.
Subsequent commits will perform some further code cleanup, adapt docs and add
tests.
Bumps PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-By: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (in a much earlier version)
Reviewed-By: Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru> (in a much earlier version)
Reviewed-By: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> (in a much earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220308205351.2xcn6k4x5yivcxyd@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319235115.y3wz7hpnnrshdyv6@alap3.anarazel.de
Exclusive-mode backups have been deprecated since 9.6 (when
non-exclusive backups were introduced) due to the issues
they can cause should the system crash while one is running and
generally because non-exclusive provides a much better interface.
Further, exclusive backup mode wasn't really being tested (nor was most
of the related code- like being able to log in just to stop an exclusive
backup and the bits of the state machine related to that) and having to
possibly deal with an exclusive backup and the backup_label file
existing during pg_basebackup, pg_rewind, etc, added other complexities
that we are better off without.
This patch removes the exclusive backup mode, the various special cases
for dealing with it, and greatly simplifies the online backup code and
documentation.
Authors: David Steele, Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Chapman Flack
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ac7339ca-3718-3c93-929f-99e725d1172c@pgmasters.nethttps://postgr.es/m/CAHg+QDfiM+WU61tF6=nPZocMZvHDzCK47Kneyb0ZRULYzV5sKQ@mail.gmail.com
If TRUNCATE causes some buffers to be invalidated and thus the
checkpoint does not flush them, TRUNCATE must also ensure that the
corresponding files are truncated on disk. Otherwise, a replay
from the checkpoint might find that the buffers exist but have
the wrong contents, which may cause replay to fail.
Report by Teja Mupparti. Patch by Kyotaro Horiguchi, per a design
suggestion from Heikki Linnakangas, with some changes to the
comments by me. Review of this and a prior patch that approached
the issue differently by Heikki Linnakangas, Andres Freund, Álvaro
Herrera, Masahiko Sawada, and Tom Lane.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/BYAPR06MB6373BF50B469CA393C614257ABF00@BYAPR06MB6373.namprd06.prod.outlook.com
Teach xlogreader.c to decode the WAL into a circular buffer. This will
support optimizations based on looking ahead, to follow in a later
commit.
* XLogReadRecord() works as before, decoding records one by one, and
allowing them to be examined via the traditional XLogRecGetXXX()
macros and certain traditional members like xlogreader->ReadRecPtr.
* An alternative new interface XLogReadAhead()/XLogNextRecord() is
added that returns pointers to DecodedXLogRecord objects so that it's
now possible to look ahead in the WAL stream while replaying.
* In order to be able to use the new interface effectively while
streaming data, support is added for the page_read() callback to
respond to a new nonblocking mode with XLREAD_WOULDBLOCK instead of
waiting for more data to arrive.
No direct user of the new interface is included in this commit, though
XLogReadRecord() uses it internally. Existing code doesn't need to
change, except in a few places where it was accessing reader internals
directly and now needs to go through accessor macros.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq=AovOddfHpA@mail.gmail.com
Commands like ALTER TABLE SET TABLESPACE may leave files for the next
checkpoint to clean up. If such files are not removed by the time DROP
TABLESPACE is called, we request a checkpoint so that they are deleted.
However, there is presently a window before checkpoint start where new
unlink requests won't be scheduled until the following checkpoint. This
means that the checkpoint forced by DROP TABLESPACE might not remove the
files we expect it to remove, and the following ERROR will be emitted:
ERROR: tablespace "mytblspc" is not empty
To fix, add a call to AbsorbSyncRequests() just before advancing the
unlink cycle counter. This ensures that any unlink requests forwarded
prior to checkpoint start (i.e., when ckpt_started is incremented) will
be processed by the current checkpoint. Since AbsorbSyncRequests()
performs memory allocations, it cannot be called within a critical
section, so we also need to move SyncPreCheckpoint() to before
CreateCheckPoint()'s critical section.
This is an old bug, so back-patch to all supported versions.
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220215235845.GA2665318%40nathanxps13
Previously, pg_basebackup from a cluster that contained an 'in-place'
tablespace, as introduced by commit 7170f215, would produce a harmless
warning on Unix and fail completely on Windows.
Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220304.165449.1200020258723305904.horikyota.ntt%40gmail.com
FinishWalRecovery() copied the valid part of the last WAL block into a
palloc'd buffer, and the code in StartupXLOG() copied it to the WAL
buffer. But the memcpy in StartupXLOG() copied a full 8kB block, not
just the valid part, i.e. it copied from beyond the end of the buffer.
The invalid part was cleared immediately afterwards, so as long as the
memory was allocated and didn't segfault, it didn't do any harm, but
it can definitely segfault.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/efc12e32-5af2-3485-5b1d-5af9f707491a@iki.fi
This moves the functions related to performing WAL recovery into the new
xlogrecovery.c source file, leaving xlog.c responsible for maintaining
the WAL buffers, coordinating the startup and switch from recovery to
normal operations, and other miscellaneous stuff that have always been in
xlog.c.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a31f27b4-a31d-f976-6217-2b03be646ffa%40iki.fi
This is in preparation for the next commit, which will split off
recovery-related code from xlog.c into a new source file. This is the
order that things will happen with the next commit, and the point of
this commit is to make these ordering changes more explicit, while the
next commit mechanically moves the source code to the new file. To aid
review, I added "BEGIN/END function" comments to mark which blocks of
code are moved to which functions in the next commit. They will be gone
in the next commit.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a31f27b4-a31d-f976-6217-2b03be646ffa%40iki.fi
To tidy up after some recent refactorings in xlog.c. These would be
fixed by the pgindent run we do at the end of the development cycle,
but I want to clean these up now as I'm about to do some more big
refactorings on xlog.c.
Running a shell command for each file to be archived has a lot of
overhead and may not offer as much error checking as you want, or the
exact semantics that you want. So, offer the option to call a loadable
module for each file to be archived, rather than running a shell command.
Also, add a 'basic_archive' contrib module as an example implementation
that archives to a local directory.
Nathan Bossart, with a little bit of kibitzing by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220202224433.GA1036711@nathanxps13
WAL replay would cause a hard crash if the timeline expected by a
XLOG_END_OF_RECOVERY, a XLOG_CHECKPOINT_ONLINE, or a
XLOG_CHECKPOINT_SHUTDOWN record is not the same as the timeline being
replayed, using the same error message for all three of them. This
commit changes those error messages to use different wordings, adapted
to each record type, which is useful when it comes to the debugging of
an issue in this area.
Author: Amul Sul
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97i1ZerYC_xW6o_AiDSW5n+sGi8k91Yc8KS8bKWKxjqwQ@mail.gmail.com
This fixes a set of issues that have accumulated over the past months
(or years) in various code areas. Most fixes are related to some recent
additions, as of the development of v15.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220124030001.GQ23027@telsasoft.com
Instead of referring to target backends by pid, use pgprocno. This
means that we don't have to scan the ProcArray and we can drop some
special case code for dealing with the startup process.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLYRyDaneEwz5Uya_OgFLMx5BgJfkQSD%3Dq9HmwsfRRb-w%40mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Soumyadeep Chakraborty <soumyadeep2007@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashwin Agrawal <ashwinstar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
It's not great that RecoveryInProgress() calls InitXLOGAccess(),
because a status inquiry function typically shouldn't have the side
effect of performing initializations. We could fix that by calling
InitXLOGAccess() from some other place, but instead, let's remove it
altogether.
One thing InitXLogAccess() did is initialize wal_segment_size, but it
doesn't need to do that. In the postmaster, PostmasterMain() calls
LocalProcessControlFile(), and all child processes will inherit that
value -- except in EXEC_BACKEND bulds, but then each backend runs
SubPostmasterMain() which also calls LocalProcessControlFile().
The other thing InitXLOGAccess() did is update RedoRecPtr and
doPageWrites, but that's not critical, because all code that uses
them will just retry if it turns out that they've changed. The
only difference is that most code will now see an initial value that
is definitely invalid instead of one that might have just been way
out of date, but that will only happen once per backend lifetime,
so it shouldn't be a big deal.
Patch by me, reviewed by Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier, Andres
Freund, Heikki Linnakangas, and Álvaro Herrera.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoY7b65qRjzHN_tWUk8B4sJqk1vj1d31uepVzmgPnZKeLg@mail.gmail.com
The idea here is that when a performance problem is known to have
occurred at a certain point in time, it's a good thing if there is
some information available from the logs to help figure out what
might have happened around that time.
This change attracted an above-average amount of dissent, because
it means that a server with default settings will produce some amount
of log output even if nothing has gone wrong. However, by my count,
the mailing list discussion had about twice as many people in favor
of the change as opposed. The reasons for believing that the extra
log output is not an issue in practice are: (1) the rate at which
messages can be generated by this setting is bounded to one every
few minutes on a properly-configured system and (2) production
systems tend to have a lot more junk in the log from that due to
failed connection attempts, ERROR messages generated by application
activity, and the like.
Bharath Rupireddy, reviewed by Fujii Masao and by me. Many other
people commented on the thread, but as far as I can see that was
discussion of the merits of the change rather than review of the
patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACX-rW_OeDcp4gqrFUAkf1f50Fnh138dmkd0JkvCNQRKGA@mail.gmail.com
This commit moves the timestamp computation of the control file within
the routine of src/common/ in charge of updating the backend's control
file, which is shared by multiple frontend tools (pg_rewind,
pg_checksums and pg_resetwal) and the backend itself.
This change has as direct effect to update the control file's timestamp
when writing the control file in pg_rewind and pg_checksums, something
that is helpful to keep track of control file updates for those
operations, something also tracked by the backend at startup within its
logs. This part is arguably a bug, as ControlFileData->time should be
updated each time a new version of the control file is written, but this
is a behavior change so no backpatch is done.
Author: Amul Sul
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97nd_ghRpyFV9Djf9RLXkoTbOUqnocq11WGq9TisX09Fw@mail.gmail.com
In most places, the variables necessarily store the same value as the
eponymous members of the XLogReaderState that we use during WAL
replay, because ReadRecord() assigns the values from the structure
members to the global variables just after XLogReadRecord() returns.
However, XLogBeginRead() adjusts the structure members but not the
global variables, so after XLogBeginRead() and before the completion
of XLogReadRecord() the values can differ. Otherwise, they must be
identical. According to my analysis, the only place where either
variable is referenced at a point where it might not have the same
value as the structure member is the refrence to EndRecPtr within
XLogPageRead.
Therefore, at every other place where we are using the global
variable, we can just switch to using the structure member instead,
and remove the global variable. However, we can, and in fact should,
do this in XLogPageRead() as well, because at that point in the code,
the global variable will actually store the start of the record we
want to read - either because it's where the last WAL record ended, or
because the read position has been changed using XLogBeginRead since
the last record was read. The structure member, on the other hand,
will already have been updated to point to the end of the record we
just read. Elsewhere, the latter is what we use as an argument to
emode_for_corrupt_record(), so we should do the same here.
This part of the patch is perhaps a bug fix, but I don't think it has
any important consequences, so no back-patch. The point here is just
to continue to whittle down the entirely excessive use of global
variables in xlog.c.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoao96EuNeSPd+hspRKcsCddu=b1h-QNRuKfY8VmfNQdfg@mail.gmail.com
rescanLatestTimeLine() contains a guard against switching to
a timeline that forked off from the current one prior to the
current recovery point, but that guard does not work if the
timeline switch occurs before the first WAL recod (which must
be the checkpoint record) is read. Without this patch, an
improper timeline switch is therefore possible in such cases.
This happens because rescanLatestTimeLine() relies on the global
variable EndRecPtr to understand the current position of WAL
replay. However, EndRecPtr at this point in the code contains
the endpoint of the last-replayed record, not the startpoint or
endpoint of the record being replayed now. Thus, before any
records have been replayed, it's zero, which causes the sanity
check to always pass.
To fix, pass down the correct timeline explicitly. The
EndRecPtr value we want is the one from the xlogreader, which
will be the starting position of the record we're about to
try to read, rather than the global variable, which is the
ending position of the last record we successfully read.
They're usually the same, but not in the corner case described
here.
No back-patch, because in v14 and earlier branhes, we were using
the wrong TLI here as well as the wrong LSN. In master, that was
fixed by commit 4a92a1c3d1, but
that and it's prerequisite patches are too invasive to
back-patch for such a minor issue.
Patch by me, reviewed by Amul Sul.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoao96EuNeSPd+hspRKcsCddu=b1h-QNRuKfY8VmfNQdfg@mail.gmail.com
A couple of spots can benefit from an added errdetail(), which matches
what we were already doing in other places; and those that cannot
withstand errdetail() can get a more descriptive primary message.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACV+cX1eM03GfcA=ZMLXh5fSn1X1auJLz3yuS1duPSb9QA@mail.gmail.com
At present, there is an undocumented coding rule that you must call
RecoveryInProgress(), or do something else that results in a call
to InitXLogInsert(), before trying to write WAL. Otherwise, the
WAL construction buffers won't be initialized, resulting in
failures.
Since it's not good to rely on a status inquiry function like
RecoveryInProgress() having the side effect of initializing
critical data structures, instead do the initialization eariler,
when the backend first starts up.
Patch by me. Reviewed by Nathan Bossart and Michael Paquier.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoY7b65qRjzHN_tWUk8B4sJqk1vj1d31uepVzmgPnZKeLg@mail.gmail.com
In XLogCtlData, rename the structure member ThisTimeLineID to
InsertTimeLineID and update the comments to make clear that it's only
expected to be set after recovery is complete.
In StartupXLOG, replace the local variables ThisTimeLineID and
PrevTimeLineID with new local variables replayTLI and newTLI. In the
old scheme, ThisTimeLineID was the replay TLI until we created a new
timeline, and after that the replay TLI was in PrevTimeLineID. Now,
replayTLI is the TLI from which we last replayed WAL throughout the
entire function, and newTLI is either that, or the new timeline created
upon promotion.
Remove some misleading comments from the comment block just above where
recoveryTargetTimeLineGoal and friends are declared. It's become
incorrect, not only because ThisTimeLineID as a variable is now gone,
but also because the rmgr code does not care about ThisTimeLineID and
has not since what used to be the TLI field in the page header was
repurposed to store the page checksum.
Add a comment GetFlushRecPtr that it's only supposed to be used in
normal running, and an assertion to verify that this is so.
Per some ideas from Michael Paquier and some of my own. Review by
Michael Paquier also.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoY1a2d1AnVR3tJcKmGGkhj7GGrwiNwjtKr21dxOuLBzCQ@mail.gmail.com
Quite a few buildfarm animals are warning about this, and lapwing
is actually failing (because -Werror). It's a false positive AFAICS,
so no need to do more than zero the variable to start with.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YYXJnUxgw9dZKxlX@paquier.xyz
StartupXLOG() still has ThisTimeLineID as a local variable, but the
remaining code in xlog.c now needs to the relevant TimeLineID by some
other means. Mostly, this means that we now pass it as a function
parameter to a bunch of functions where we didn't previously.
However, a few cases require special handling:
- In functions that might be called by outside callers who
wouldn't necessarily know what timeline to specify, we get
the timeline ID from shared memory. XLogCtl->ThisTimeLineID
can be used in most cases since recovery is known to have
completed by the time those functions are called. In
xlog_redo(), we can use XLogCtl->replayEndTLI.
- XLogFileClose() needs to know the TLI of the open logfile.
Do that with a new global variable openLogTLI. While
someone could argue that this is just trading one global
variable for another, the new one has a far more narrow
purposes and is referenced in just a few places.
- read_backup_label() now returns the TLI that it obtains
by parsing the backup_label file. Previously, ReadRecord()
could be called to parse the checkpoint record without
ThisTimeLineID having been initialized. Now, the timeline
is passed down, and I didn't want to pass an uninitialized
variable; this change lets us avoid that. The old coding
didn't seem to have any practical consequences that we need
to worry about, but this is cleaner.
- In BootstrapXLOG(), it's just a constant.
Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Michael Paquier, Amul Sul, and
Álvaro Herrera.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobfAAqhfWa1kaFBBFvX+5CjM=7TE=n4r4Q1o2bjbGYBpA@mail.gmail.com
All such code deals with this global variable in one of three ways.
Sometimes the same functions use it in more than one of these ways
at the same time.
First, sometimes it's an implicit argument to one or more functions
being called in xlog.c or elsewhere, and must be set to the
appropriate value before calling those functions lest they
misbehave. In those cases, it is now passed as an explicit argument
instead.
Second, sometimes it's used to obtain the current timeline after
the end of recovery, i.e. the timeline to which WAL is being
written and flushed. Such code now calls GetWALInsertionTimeLine()
or relies on the new out parameter added to GetFlushRecPtr().
Third, sometimes it's used during recovery to store the current
replay timeline. That can change, so such code must generally
update the value before each use. It can still do that, but must
now use a local variable instead.
The net effect of these changes is to reduce by a fair amount the
amount of code that is directly accessing this global variable.
That's good, because history has shown that we don't always think
clearly about which timeline ID it's supposed to contain at any
given point in time, or indeed, whether it has been or needs to
be initialized at any given point in the code.
Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Michael Paquier, Amul Sul, and
Álvaro Herrera.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobfAAqhfWa1kaFBBFvX+5CjM=7TE=n4r4Q1o2bjbGYBpA@mail.gmail.com
We don't modify any shared state in this function which could cause
problems for any concurrent session. This will make it look similar to the
other updates for the same structure (TransactionState) which avoids
confusion for future readers of code.
Author: Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1mSoYz-0007Fh-D9@gemulon.postgresql.org
Commit 0bead9af48 introduced XLOG_INCLUDE_XID flag to indicate that the
WAL record contains subXID-to-topXID association. It uses that flag later
to mark in CurrentTransactionState that top-xid is logged so that we
should not try to log it again with the next WAL record in the current
subtransaction. However, we can use a localized variable to pass that
information.
In passing, change the related function and variable names to make them
consistent with what the code is actually doing.
Author: Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1mSoYz-0007Fh-D9@gemulon.postgresql.org
Users sometimes get concerned whe they start the server and it
emits a few messages and then doesn't emit any more messages for
a long time. Generally, what's happening is either that the
system is taking a long time to apply WAL, or it's taking a
long time to reset unlogged relations, or it's taking a long
time to fsync the data directory, but it's not easy to tell
which is the case.
To fix that, add a new 'log_startup_progress_interval' setting,
by default 10s. When an operation that is known to be potentially
long-running takes more than this amount of time, we'll log a
status update each time this interval elapses.
To avoid undesirable log chatter, don't log anything about WAL
replay when in standby mode.
Nitin Jadhav and Robert Haas, reviewed by Amul Sul, Bharath
Rupireddy, Justin Pryzby, Michael Paquier, and Álvaro Herrera.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaHQrgDFOBwgY16XCoMtXxsrVGFB2jNCvb7-ubuEe1MGg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMm1aWaHF7VE69572_OLQ+MgpT5RUiUDgF1x5RrtkJBLdpRj3Q@mail.gmail.com
All the code that runs in the startup process to write WAL records
before that's allowed generally is now consecutive, so there's no
reason to shut the facility to write WAL locally off and then turn
it on again three times in a row.
Unfortunately, this requires a slight kludge in the checkpointer,
which needs to separately enable writing WAL in order to write the
checkpoint record. Because that code might run in the same process
as StartupXLOG() if we are in single-user mode, we must save/restore
the state of the LocalXLogInsertAllowed flag. Hopefully, we'll be
able to eliminate this wart in further refactoring, but it's
not too bad anyway.
Amul Sul, with modifications by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97fysj6sRSQEfOHj-y8Jfd5uPqOgO74qast89B4WfD+TA@mail.gmail.com
This does a better job grouping related operations together, since
all of the WAL records that we need to write prior to allowing WAL
writes generally and written by a single uninterrupted stretch of code.
Since CleanupAfterArchiveRecovery() just (1) runs recovery_end_command,
(2) removes non-parent xlog files, and (3) archives any final partial
segment, this should be safe, because all of those things are pretty
much unrelated to the WAL record written by XLogReportParameters().
Amul Sul, per a suggestion from me
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97fysj6sRSQEfOHj-y8Jfd5uPqOgO74qast89B4WfD+TA@mail.gmail.com
CreateOverwriteContrecordRecord(), UpdateFullPageWrites(),
PerformRecoveryXLogAction(), and CleanupAfterArchiveRecovery()
are moved somewhat later in StartupXLOG(). This is preparatory
work for a future patch that wants to allow recovery to end at one
time and only later start to allow WAL writes. To do that, it's
necessary to separate code that has to do with allowing WAL writes
from other things that need to happen simply because recovery is
ending, such as initializing shared memory data structures that
depend on information that might not be accurate before redo is
complete.
This commit does not achieve that goal, but it is a step in that
direction. For example, there are a few different bits of code that
write things into WAL once we have finished recovery, and with this
change, those bits of code are closer to each other than previously,
with fewer unrelated bits of code interspersed.
Robert Haas and Amul Sul
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97abMuq=470Wahun=aS1PHTSbStHtrjjPaD-C0YQ1AqVw@mail.gmail.com
Create a new function PerformRecoveryXLogAction() and move the
code which either writes an end-of-recovery record or requests a
checkpoint there.
Also create a new function CleanupAfterArchiveRecovery() to
perform a few tasks that we want to do after we've actually exited
archive recovery but before we start accepting new WAL writes.
More refactoring of this file is planned, but this commit is
just straightforward code movement to make StartupXLOG() a
little bit shorter and a little bit easier to understand.
Robert Haas and Amul Sul
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97abMuq=470Wahun=aS1PHTSbStHtrjjPaD-C0YQ1AqVw@mail.gmail.com
Commit 0668719801 changed XLogPageRead() so that it validated the page
header, if invalid page header was found reset the error message and
retried reading the page, to fix the scenario where streaming standby
got stuck at a continuation record. This change hid the error message
about invalid page header, which would make it harder for users to
investigate what the actual issue was found in WAL.
To fix the issue, this commit makes XLogPageRead() report the error
message when invalid page header is found.
When not in standby mode, an invalid page header should cause recovery
to end, not retry reading the page, so XLogPageRead() doesn't need to
validate the page header for the retry. Instead, ReadPageInternal() should
be responsible for the validation in that case. Therefore this commit
changes XLogPageRead() so that if not in standby mode it doesn't validate
the page header for the retry.
Reported-by: Yugo Nagata
Author: Yugo Nagata, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Ranier Vilela, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210718045505.32f463ed6c227111038d8ae4@sraoss.co.jp
Some specific logic is done at the end of recovery when involving 2PC
transactions:
1) Call RecoverPreparedTransactions(), to recover the state of 2PC
transactions into memory (re-acquire locks, etc.).
2) ShutdownRecoveryTransactionEnvironment(), to move back to normal
operations, mainly cleaning up recovery locks and KnownAssignedXids
(including any 2PC transaction tracked previously).
3) Switch XLogCtl->SharedRecoveryState to RECOVERY_STATE_DONE, which is
the tipping point for any process calling RecoveryInProgress() to check
if the cluster is still in recovery or not.
Any snapshot taken between steps 2) and 3) would be empty, causing any
transaction relying on a snapshot at this point to potentially corrupt
data as there could still be some 2PC transactions to track, with
RecentXmin moving backwards on successive calls to GetSnapshotData() in
the same transaction.
As SharedRecoveryState is the point to take into account to know if it
is safe to discard KnownAssignedXids, this commit moves step 2) after
step 3), so as we can never finish with empty snapshots.
This exists since the introduction of hot standby, so backpatch all the
way down. The window with incorrect snapshots is extremely small, but I
have seen it when running 023_pitr_prepared_xact.pl, as did buildfarm
member fairywren. Thomas Munro also found it independently. Special
thanks to Andres Freund for taking the time to analyze this issue.
Reported-by: Thomas Munro, Michael Paquier
Analyzed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210422203603.fdnh3fu2mmfp2iov@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Commit ff9f111bce added some test code that's unportable and doesn't
add meaningful coverage. Remove it rather than try and get it to work
everywhere.
While at it, fix a typo in a log message added by the aforementioned
commit.
Backpatch to 14.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3000074.1632947632@sss.pgh.pa.us
Physical replication always ships WAL segment files to replicas once
they are complete. This is a problem if one WAL record is split across
a segment boundary and the primary server crashes before writing down
the segment with the next portion of the WAL record: WAL writing after
crash recovery would happily resume at the point where the broken record
started, overwriting that record ... but any standby or backup may have
already received a copy of that segment, and they are not rewinding.
This causes standbys to stop following the primary after the latter
crashes:
LOG: invalid contrecord length 7262 at A8/D9FFFBC8
because the standby is still trying to read the continuation record
(contrecord) for the original long WAL record, but it is not there and
it will never be. A workaround is to stop the replica, delete the WAL
file, and restart it -- at which point a fresh copy is brought over from
the primary. But that's pretty labor intensive, and I bet many users
would just give up and re-clone the standby instead.
A fix for this problem was already attempted in commit 515e3d84a0, but
it only addressed the case for the scenario of WAL archiving, so
streaming replication would still be a problem (as well as other things
such as taking a filesystem-level backup while the server is down after
having crashed), and it had performance scalability problems too; so it
had to be reverted.
This commit fixes the problem using an approach suggested by Andres
Freund, whereby the initial portion(s) of the split-up WAL record are
kept, and a special type of WAL record is written where the contrecord
was lost, so that WAL replay in the replica knows to skip the broken
parts. With this approach, we can continue to stream/archive segment
files as soon as they are complete, and replay of the broken records
will proceed across the crash point without a hitch.
Because a new type of WAL record is added, users should be careful to
upgrade standbys first, primaries later. Otherwise they risk the standby
being unable to start if the primary happens to write such a record.
A new TAP test that exercises this is added, but the portability of it
is yet to be seen.
This has been wrong since the introduction of physical replication, so
backpatch all the way back. In stable branches, keep the new
XLogReaderState members at the end of the struct, to avoid an ABI
break.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202108232252.dh7uxf6oxwcy@alvherre.pgsql
WAL records may span multiple segments, but XLogWrite() does not
wait for the entire record to be written out to disk before
creating archive status files. Instead, as soon as the last WAL page of
the segment is written, the archive status file is created, and the
archiver may process it. If PostgreSQL crashes before it is able to
write and flush the rest of the record (in the next WAL segment), the
wrong version of the first segment file lingers in the archive, which
causes operations such as point-in-time restores to fail.
To fix this, keep track of records that span across segments and ensure
that segments are only marked ready-for-archival once such records have
been completely written to disk.
This has always been wrong, so backpatch all the way back.
Author: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryo Matsumura <matsumura.ryo@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CBDDFA01-6E40-46BB-9F98-9340F4379505@amazon.com
This commit ensures that the wait interval in the replay delay loop
waiting for an amount of time defined by recovery_min_apply_delay is
correctly handled on reload, recalculating the delay if this GUC value
is updated, based on the timestamp of the commit record being replayed.
The previous behavior would be problematic for example with replay
still waiting even if the delay got reduced or just cancelled. If the
apply delay was increased to a larger value, the wait would have just
respected the old value set, finishing earlier.
Author: Soumyadeep Chakraborty, Ashwin Agrawal
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE-ML+93zfr-HLN8OuxF0BjpWJ17O5dv1eMvSE5jsj9jpnAXZA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Thomas Munro
Andres Freund
Stephen Frost
Robert Haas
Michael Paquier
Heikki Linnakangas
Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut
Daniel Gustafsson
Alvaro Herrera
Fujii Masao
Tom Lane
Amit Kapila