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authorMagnus Hagander2016-09-30 09:19:30 +0000
committerMagnus Hagander2016-09-30 09:23:25 +0000
commit4bff35cca56ce665422e69c47a931793eb6e9d04 (patch)
tree8f889a1959517f3ebb4bece9d24a69cf3dff364d
parent3c97a7ca46c0734446b5f5be8a4c469434b371d7 (diff)
Retry opening new segments in pg_xlogdump --folllow
There is a small window between when the server closes out the existing segment and the new one is created. Put a loop around the open call in this case to make sure we wait for the new file to actually appear.
-rw-r--r--contrib/pg_xlogdump/pg_xlogdump.c26
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/pg_xlogdump/pg_xlogdump.c b/contrib/pg_xlogdump/pg_xlogdump.c
index 11fd7130552..3206d85854a 100644
--- a/contrib/pg_xlogdump/pg_xlogdump.c
+++ b/contrib/pg_xlogdump/pg_xlogdump.c
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ XLogDumpXLogRead(const char *directory, TimeLineID timeline_id,
if (sendFile < 0 || !XLByteInSeg(recptr, sendSegNo))
{
char fname[MAXFNAMELEN];
+ int tries;
/* Switch to another logfile segment */
if (sendFile >= 0)
@@ -240,7 +241,30 @@ XLogDumpXLogRead(const char *directory, TimeLineID timeline_id,
XLogFileName(fname, timeline_id, sendSegNo);
- sendFile = fuzzy_open_file(directory, fname);
+ /*
+ * In follow mode there is a short period of time after the
+ * server has written the end of the previous file before the
+ * new file is available. So we loop for 5 seconds looking
+ * for the file to appear before giving up.
+ */
+ for (tries = 0; tries < 10; tries++)
+ {
+ sendFile = fuzzy_open_file(directory, fname);
+ if (sendFile >= 0)
+ break;
+ if (errno == ENOENT)
+ {
+ int save_errno = errno;
+
+ /* File not there yet, try again */
+ pg_usleep(500 * 1000);
+
+ errno = save_errno;
+ continue;
+ }
+ /* Any other error, fall through and fail */
+ break;
+ }
if (sendFile < 0)
fatal_error("could not find file \"%s\": %s",