On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deola...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Since all those offsets fall on a page boundary, my guess is that we're
> somehow failing to handle a new page correctly.
>
> Looking at the patch itself, my feeling is that the following code
> in src/backend/access/transam/twophase.c might be causing the problem.
>
> 1841
> 1842 /* update nextXid if needed */
> 1843 if (TransactionIdFollowsOrEquals(maxsubxid,
> ShmemVariableCache->nextXid))
> 1844 {
> 1845 LWLockAcquire(XidGenLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
> 1846 ShmemVariableCache->nextXid = maxsubxid;
> 1847 TransactionIdAdvance(ShmemVariableCache->nextXid);
> 1848 LWLockRelease(XidGenLock);
> 1849 }
>
> The function PrescanPreparedTransactions() gets called at the start of
> the redo recovery and this specific block will get exercised irrespective
> of whether there are any prepared transactions or not. What I find
> particularly wrong here is that we are initialising maxsubxid to current
> value of ShmemVariableCache->nextXid when the function enters, but this
> block would then again increment ShmemVariableCache->nextXid, when there
> are no prepared transactions in the system.
>
> I wonder if we should do as in attached patch.
>
That solves it for me.
Thanks,
Jeff
