postgresql/src/test/recovery
Michael Paquier 3c64dcb1e3 Prevent references to invalid relation pages after fresh promotion
If a standby crashes after promotion before having completed its first
post-recovery checkpoint, then the minimal recovery point which marks
the LSN position where the cluster is able to reach consistency may be
set to a position older than the first end-of-recovery checkpoint while
all the WAL available should be replayed.  This leads to the instance
thinking that it contains inconsistent pages, causing a PANIC and a hard
instance crash even if all the WAL available has not been replayed for
certain sets of records replayed.  When in crash recovery,
minRecoveryPoint is expected to always be set to InvalidXLogRecPtr,
which forces the recovery to replay all the WAL available, so this
commit makes sure that the local copy of minRecoveryPoint from the
control file is initialized properly and stays as it is while crash
recovery is performed.  Once switching to archive recovery or if crash
recovery finishes, then the local copy minRecoveryPoint can be safely
updated.

Pavan Deolasee has reported and diagnosed the failure in the first
place, and the base fix idea to rely on the local copy of
minRecoveryPoint comes from Kyotaro Horiguchi, which has been expanded
into a full-fledged patch by me.  The test included in this commit has
been written by Álvaro Herrera and Pavan Deolasee, which I have modified
to make it faster and more reliable with sleep phases.

Backpatch down to all supported versions where the bug appears, aka 9.3
which is where the end-of-recovery checkpoint is not run by the startup
process anymore.  The test gets easily supported down to 10, still it
has been tested on all branches.

Reported-by: Pavan Deolasee
Diagnosed-by: Pavan Deolasee
Reviewed-by: Pavan Deolasee, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Pavan Deolasee, Álvaro
Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABOikdPOewjNL=05K5CbNMxnNtXnQjhTx2F--4p4ruorCjukbA@mail.gmail.com
2018-07-05 10:46:18 +09:00
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t Prevent references to invalid relation pages after fresh promotion 2018-07-05 10:46:18 +09:00
.gitignore Minor tweaks for new src/test/recovery 2016-02-29 18:16:59 -03:00
Makefile Add installcheck support to more test suites 2018-01-23 07:11:38 -05:00
README Clarify the README files for the various separate TAP-based test suites. 2018-06-19 19:30:50 -04:00

README

src/test/recovery/README

Regression tests for recovery and replication
=============================================

This directory contains a test suite for recovery and replication.

Running the tests
=================

NOTE: You must have given the --enable-tap-tests argument to configure.

Run
    make check
or
    make installcheck
You can use "make installcheck" if you previously did "make install".
In that case, the code in the installation tree is tested.  With
"make check", a temporary installation tree is built from the current
sources and then tested.

Either way, this test initializes, starts, and stops several test Postgres
clusters.