On Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:32 PM Fujii Masao wrote:
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 12.09.2012 22:03, Fujii Masao wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:47 PM,<amit.kap...@huawei.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>>>
>>> Bug reference:      7533
>>> Logged by:          Amit Kapila
>>> Email address:      amit.kap...@huawei.com
>>> PostgreSQL version: 9.2.0
>>> Operating system:   Suse
>>> Description:
>>>
>>> M host is primary, S host is standby and CS host is cascaded standby.
>>>
>


>> Hmm, I think the CheckRecoveryConsistency() call in the redo loop is
>> misplaced. It's called after we got a record from ReadRecord, but *before*
>> replaying it (rm_redo). Even if replaying record X makes the system
>> consistent, we won't check and notice that until we have fetched record X+1.
>> In this particular test case, record X is a shutdown checkpoint record, but
>> it could as well be a running-xacts record, or the record that reaches
>> minRecoveryPoint.
>
>> Does the problem go away if you just move the CheckRecoveryConsistency()
>> call *after* rm_redo (attached)?

> No, at least in my case. When recovery starts at shutdown checkpoint record 
> and
> there is no record following the shutdown checkpoint, recovery gets in
> wait state
> before entering the main redo apply loop. That is, recovery starts waiting for
> new WAL record to arrive, in ReadRecord just before the redo loop. So moving
> the CheckRecoveryConsistency() call after rm_redo cannot fix the problem which
>I reported. To fix the problem, we need to make the recovery reach the
> consistent
> point before the redo loop, i.e., in the CheckRecoveryConsistency()
> just before the redo loop.

I think may be in that case we need both the fixes, as the problem I have 
reported can be fixed with Heikki's patch.

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.



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