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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: subscriptionCheck failures on nightjar
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:10:49 -0400
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Andres Freund <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2019-02-14 09:52:33 +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
>> Just to make sure I understand: it's OK for the file not to be there
>> when we try to fsync it by name, because a concurrent checkpoint can
>> remove it, having determined that we don't need it anymore?  In other
>> words, we really needed either missing_ok=true semantics, or to use
>> the fd we already had instead of the name?

> I'm not yet sure that that's actually something that's supposed to
> happen, I got to spend some time analysing how this actually
> happens. Normally the contents of the slot should actually prevent it
> from being removed (as they're newer than
> ReplicationSlotsComputeLogicalRestartLSN()). I kind of wonder if that's
> a bug in the drop logic in newer releases.

My animal dromedary just reproduced this failure, which we've previously
only seen on nightjar.

https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=dromedary&dt=2019-06-26%2023%3A57%3A45

			regards, tom lane





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