Commit e6c44eef authored by Andres Freund's avatar Andres Freund

Fix off-by-one possibly leading to skipped XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS records.

Since 6ef2eba3 ("Skip checkpoints, archiving on idle systems."),
GetLastImportantRecPtr() is used to avoid performing superfluous
checkpoints, xlog switches, running-xact records when the system is
idle.  Unfortunately the check concerning running-xact records had a
off-by-one error, leading to such records being potentially skipped
when only a single record has been inserted since the last
running-xact record.

An alternative approach would have been to change
GetLastImportantRecPtr()'s definition to point to the end of records,
but that would make the checkpoint code more complicated.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170505012447.wsrympaxnfis6ojt@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: no, code only present in master
parent 334b82cd
......@@ -325,10 +325,13 @@ BackgroundWriterMain(void)
/*
* Only log if enough time has passed and interesting records have
* been inserted since the last snapshot.
* been inserted since the last snapshot. Have to compare with <=
* instead of < because GetLastImportantRecPtr() points at the
* start of a record, whereas last_snapshot_lsn points just past
* the end of the record.
*/
if (now >= timeout &&
last_snapshot_lsn < GetLastImportantRecPtr())
last_snapshot_lsn <= GetLastImportantRecPtr())
{
last_snapshot_lsn = LogStandbySnapshot();
last_snapshot_ts = now;
......
......@@ -611,7 +611,8 @@ CheckArchiveTimeout(void)
{
/*
* Switch segment only when "important" WAL has been logged since the
* last segment switch.
* last segment switch (last_switch_lsn points to end of segment
* switch occurred in).
*/
if (GetLastImportantRecPtr() > last_switch_lsn)
{
......
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