
WAL records may span multiple segments, but XLogWrite() does not wait for the entire record to be written out to disk before creating archive status files. Instead, as soon as the last WAL page of the segment is written, the archive status file is created, and the archiver may process it. If PostgreSQL crashes before it is able to write and flush the rest of the record (in the next WAL segment), the wrong version of the first segment file lingers in the archive, which causes operations such as point-in-time restores to fail. To fix this, keep track of records that span across segments and ensure that segments are only marked ready-for-archival once such records have been completely written to disk. This has always been wrong, so backpatch all the way back. Author: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ryo Matsumura <matsumura.ryo@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CBDDFA01-6E40-46BB-9F98-9340F4379505@amazon.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System ===================================== This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here: https://www.postgresql.org/download/ See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.
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