Hi, On 2018-06-25 10:37:18 -0500, Jeremy Finzel wrote: > I am hoping someone here can shed some light on this issue - I apologize if > this isn't the right place to ask this but I'm almost some of you all were > involving in pgq's dev and might be able to answer this. > > We are actually running 2 replication technologies on a few of our dbs, > skytools and pglogical. Although we are moving towards only using logical > decoding-based replication, right now we have both for different purposes. > > There seems to be a table rewrite happening on table pgq.event_58_1 that > has happened twice, and it ends up in the decoding stream, resulting in the > following error: > > ERROR,XX000,"could not map filenode ""base/16418/1173394526"" to relation > OID" > > In retracing what happened, we discovered that this relfilenode was > rewritten. But somehow, it is ending up in the logical decoding stream as > is "undecodable". This is pretty disastrous because the only way to fix it > really is to advance the replication slot and lose data. > > The only obvious table rewrite I can find in the pgq codebase is a truncate > in pgq.maint_rotate_tables.sql. But there isn't anything surprising > there. If anyone has any ideas as to what might cause this so that we > could somehow mitigate the possibility of this happening again until we > move off pgq, that would be much appreciated.
I suspect the issue might be that pgq does some updates to catalog tables. Is that indeed the case? Greetings, Andres Freund