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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Is pg_control file crashsafe?
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce () momjian ! us>
Date: 2016-04-30 21:55:08
Message-ID: 20160430215508.GC556 () momjian ! us
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 09:58:00PM +0000, Alex Ignatov wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> We have some issue with truncated pg_control file on Windows after power
> failure.
> My questions is :
> 1) Is pg_control protected from say , power crash or partial write?
> 2) How PG update pg_control? By writing in it or writing in some temp file and
> after that rename it to pg_control to be atomic?
We write pg_controldata in one write() OS call:
if (write(fd, buffer, PG_CONTROL_SIZE) != PG_CONTROL_SIZE)
> 3) Can PG have multiple pg_control copy to be more fault tolerant?
>
> PS During some experiments we found that at present time there is no any method
> to do crash recovery with "restored" version of pg_control (based on some
> manipulations with pg_resetxlog ).
> Only by using pg_resetxlog and setting it parameters to values taken from wal
> file (pg_xlogdump)we can at least start PG and saw that PG state is at the
> moment of last check point. But we have no real confidence that PG is in
> consistent state(also docs on pg_resetxlogs told us about it too)
We have talked about improving the reliability of pg_control, but
failures are so rare we have never done anything to improve it. I know
Tatsuo has talked about making pg_control more reliable, so I am CC'ing
him.
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