Re: VM corruption on standby

On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 at 20:00, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
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> Hi hackers!
>
> I was reviewing the patch about removing xl_heap_visible and found the VM\WAL machinery very interesting.
> At Yandex we had several incidents with corrupted VM and on pgconf.dev colleagues from AWS confirmed that they saw
somethingsimilar too.
 

While this aims to find existing VM corruption (i mean, in PG <= 17),
this reproducer does not seem to work on pg17. At least, I did not
manage to reproduce this scenario on pg17.

This makes me think this exact corruption may be pg18-only. Is it
possible that AIO is somehow involved here?

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Best regards,
Kirill Reshke