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authorTom Lane2012-02-26 20:12:34 +0000
committerTom Lane2012-02-26 20:12:34 +0000
commit5ce0a842a6e93ecb453490dc1b6a578b40da1630 (patch)
treeefe0b3fa7b9d9613f86c774f5f710e324468bad9
parent0209a10bf8e53809529bbe916b6ff2185fd61b96 (diff)
Fix some more bugs in GIN's WAL replay logic.
In commit 4016bdef8aded77b4903c457050622a5a1815c16 I fixed a bunch of ginxlog.c bugs having to do with not handling XLogReadBuffer failures correctly. However, in ginRedoUpdateMetapage and ginRedoDeleteListPages, I unaccountably thought that failure to read the metapage would be impossible and just put in an elog(PANIC) call. This is of course wrong: failure is exactly what will happen if the index got dropped (or rebuilt) between creation of the WAL record and the crash we're trying to recover from. I believe this explains Nicholas Wilson's recent report of these errors getting reached. Also, fix memory leak in forgetIncompleteSplit. This wasn't of much concern when the code was written, but in a long-running standby server page split records could be expected to accumulate indefinitely. Back-patch to 8.4 --- before that, GIN didn't have a metapage.
-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c b/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c
index 864cab28fd0..6fc55311576 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c
@@ -59,9 +59,12 @@ forgetIncompleteSplit(RelFileNode node, BlockNumber leftBlkno, BlockNumber updat
{
ginIncompleteSplit *split = (ginIncompleteSplit *) lfirst(l);
- if (RelFileNodeEquals(node, split->node) && leftBlkno == split->leftBlkno && updateBlkno == split->rightBlkno)
+ if (RelFileNodeEquals(node, split->node) &&
+ leftBlkno == split->leftBlkno &&
+ updateBlkno == split->rightBlkno)
{
incomplete_splits = list_delete_ptr(incomplete_splits, split);
+ pfree(split);
break;
}
}
@@ -486,7 +489,7 @@ ginRedoUpdateMetapage(XLogRecPtr lsn, XLogRecord *record)
metabuffer = XLogReadBuffer(data->node, GIN_METAPAGE_BLKNO, false);
if (!BufferIsValid(metabuffer))
- elog(PANIC, "GIN metapage disappeared");
+ return; /* assume index was deleted, nothing to do */
metapage = BufferGetPage(metabuffer);
if (!XLByteLE(lsn, PageGetLSN(metapage)))
@@ -631,7 +634,7 @@ ginRedoDeleteListPages(XLogRecPtr lsn, XLogRecord *record)
metabuffer = XLogReadBuffer(data->node, GIN_METAPAGE_BLKNO, false);
if (!BufferIsValid(metabuffer))
- elog(PANIC, "GIN metapage disappeared");
+ return; /* assume index was deleted, nothing to do */
metapage = BufferGetPage(metabuffer);
if (!XLByteLE(lsn, PageGetLSN(metapage)))