Spurious "apparent wraparound" via SimpleLruTruncate() rounding

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От Noah Misch
Тема Spurious "apparent wraparound" via SimpleLruTruncate() rounding
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Msg-id 20190202083822.GC32531@gust.leadboat.com
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Ответы Re: Spurious "apparent wraparound" via SimpleLruTruncate() rounding  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
Re: Spurious "apparent wraparound" via SimpleLruTruncate() rounding  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
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While testing an xidStopLimit corner case, I got this:

3656710 2019-01-05 00:05:13.910 GMT LOG:  automatic aggressive vacuum to prevent wraparound of table
"test.pg_toast.pg_toast_826":index scans: 0
 
3656710 2019-01-05 00:05:16.912 GMT LOG:  could not truncate directory "pg_xact": apparent wraparound
3656710 2019-01-05 00:05:16.912 GMT DEBUG:  transaction ID wrap limit is 4294486400, limited by database with OID 1
3656710 2019-01-05 00:05:16.912 GMT WARNING:  database "template1" must be vacuumed within 481499 transactions
3656710 2019-01-05 00:05:16.912 GMT HINT:  To avoid a database shutdown, execute a database-wide VACUUM in that
database.

I think the WARNING was correct about having 481499 XIDs left before
xidWrapLimit, and the spurious "apparent wraparound" arose from this
rounding-down in SimpleLruTruncate():

    cutoffPage -= cutoffPage % SLRU_PAGES_PER_SEGMENT;
...
    /*
     * While we are holding the lock, make an important safety check: the
     * planned cutoff point must be <= the current endpoint page. Otherwise we
     * have already wrapped around, and proceeding with the truncation would
     * risk removing the current segment.
     */
    if (ctl->PagePrecedes(shared->latest_page_number, cutoffPage))
    {
        LWLockRelease(shared->ControlLock);
        ereport(LOG,
                (errmsg("could not truncate directory \"%s\": apparent wraparound",
                        ctl->Dir)));

We round "cutoffPage" to make ctl->PagePrecedes(segpage, cutoffPage) return
false for the segment containing the cutoff page.  CLOGPagePrecedes() (and
most SLRU PagePrecedes methods) implements a circular address space.  Hence,
the rounding also causes ctl->PagePrecedes(segpage, cutoffPage) to return true
for the segment furthest in the future relative to the unrounded cutoffPage
(if it exists).  That's bad.  Such a segment rarely exists, because
xidStopLimit protects 1000000 XIDs, and the rounding moves truncation by no
more than (BLCKSZ * CLOG_XACTS_PER_BYTE * SLRU_PAGES_PER_SEGMENT - 1) =
1048575 XIDs.  Thus, I expect to see this problem at 4.9% of xidStopLimit
values.  I expect this is easier to see with multiStopLimit, which protects
only 100 mxid.

The main consequence is the false alarm.  A prudent DBA will want to react to
true wraparound, but no such wraparound has occurred.  Also, we temporarily
waste disk space in pg_xact.  This feels like a recipe for future bugs.  The
fix I have in mind, attached, is to change instances of
ctl->PagePrecedes(FIRST_PAGE_OF_SEGMENT, ROUNDED_cutoffPage) to
ctl->PagePrecedes(LAST_PAGE_OF_SEGMENT, cutoffPage).  I'm inclined not to
back-patch this; does anyone favor back-patching?

Thanks,
nm

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