From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: pgsql: Switch to FATAL error for missing checkpoint record without back
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:00:21 +0000
Message-ID: <E1vznKX-003FXl-2E@gemulon.postgresql.org> (raw)
Switch to FATAL error for missing checkpoint record without backup_label
Crash recovery started without a backup_label previously crashed with a
PANIC if the checkpoint record could not be found. This commit lowers
the report generated to be a FATAL instead.
With recovery methods being more imaginative these days, this should
provide more flexibility when handling PostgreSQL recovery processing in
the event of a driver error, similarly to 15f68cebdcec. An extra
benefit of this change is that it becomes possible to add a test to
check that a FATAL is hit with an expected error message pattern. With
the recovery code becoming more complicated over the last couple of
years, I suspect that this will be benefitial to cover in the long-term.
The original PANIC behavior has been introduced in the early days of
crash recovery, as of 4d14fe0048cf (PANIC did not exist yet, the code
used STOP).
Author: Nitin Jadhav <nitinjadhavpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMm1aWZbQ-Acp_xAxC7mX9uZZMH8+NpfepY9w=AOxbBVT9E=uA@mail.gmail.com
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/03facc1211b0ff1550f41bcd4da09329080c30f9
Modified Files
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src/backend/access/transam/xlogrecovery.c | 2 +-
src/test/recovery/meson.build | 1 +
.../recovery/t/052_checkpoint_segment_missing.pl | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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