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.
Branch
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REL8_4_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5ce0a842a6e93ecb453490dc1b6a578b40da1630
Modified Files
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src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c | 9 ++++++---
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)