Work around non-atomic read of read of control file on ext4

Title

Topic

Bug Fixes

Created

2022-11-24 21:50:05

Last modified

2023-04-07 12:39:48 (1 month, 3 weeks ago)

Latest email

2023-03-08 22:10:57 (2 months, 3 weeks ago)

Status

2023-07: Needs review

2023-03: Moved to next CF

2023-01: Moved to next CF

Target version

Authors

Thomas Munro (macdice)

Reviewers

Anton Melnikov (antonmel)Become reviewer

Committer

Links

Emails

odd buildfarm failure - "pg_ctl: control file appears to be corrupt": First at 2022-11-23 01:42:24 by Andres Freund <andres at anarazel.de>
Latest at 2023-03-08 22:10:57 by "Anton A. Melnikov" <aamelnikov at inbox.ru>
Latest attachment (v3-0001-Lock-pg_control-while-reading-or-writing.patch) at 2023-03-03 21:39:20 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at gmail.com>
    Attachment (v3-0001-Lock-pg_control-while-reading-or-writing.patch) at 2023-03-03 21:39:20 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at gmail.com> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (0001-Lock-pg_control-while-reading-or-writing.patch) at 2023-02-17 03:21:14 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at gmail.com> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (0001-Apply-wal_sync_method-to-pg_control-file.patch) at 2023-02-01 06:45:34 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at gmail.com> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (0001-Lock-pg_control-while-reading-or-writing.patch) at 2023-01-31 11:38:33 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at gmail.com> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (0001-XXX-Dirty-hack-to-clobber-control-file-for-testing.patch) at 2022-11-24 01:02:54 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at gmail.com> (Patch: Yes)

History

When	Who	What
2023-04-07 12:39:48	Thomas Munro (macdice)	Closed in commitfest 2023-03 with status: Moved to next CF
2023-02-17 04:40:20	Anton Melnikov (antonmel)	New status: Needs review
2023-01-31 16:34:20	vigneshwaran C (vignesh.postgres)	Closed in commitfest 2023-01 with status: Moved to next CF
2023-01-31 01:11:35	Anton Melnikov (antonmel)	Added antonmel as reviewer
2023-01-31 01:11:30	Anton Melnikov (antonmel)	New status: Waiting on Author
2022-11-24 21:50:12	Thomas Munro (macdice)	Changed authors to Thomas Munro (macdice)
2022-11-24 21:50:05	Thomas Munro (macdice)	Attached mail thread 20221123014224.xisi44byq3cf5psi@awork3.anarazel.de
2022-11-24 21:50:05	Thomas Munro (macdice)	Created patch record