Fix rare checksum failure in EXEC_BACKEND LocalProcessControlFile()

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Needs rebase! Needs rebase since 5 months. Failing since 4 months.
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Bug Fixes

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Created

2024-07-15 03:36:36

Last modified

2025-07-24 15:44:33 (yesterday)

Latest email

2025-03-26 09:12:11 (3 months ago)

Status

PG19-2 (2025-09-01 - 2025-09-30): Waiting on Author

2025-03 (2025-03-01 - 2025-04-08): Moved to different CF

2025-01 (2025-01-01 - 2025-01-31): Moved to different CF

2024-11 (2024-11-01 - 2024-11-30): Moved to different CF

2024-09 (2024-09-01 - 2024-09-30): Moved to different CF

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Authors

Thomas Munro (macdice)

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Noah Misch (nmisch)Become reviewer

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race condition when writing pg_control: First at 2020-05-04 17:44:21 by "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn at amazon.com>
Latest at 2025-03-26 09:12:11 by vignesh C <vignesh21 at gmail.com>
Latest attachment (v1-0001-Fix-pg_control-corruption-in-EXEC_BACKEND-startup.patch) at 2024-05-18 05:29:12 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at gmail.com>
    Attachment (v1-0001-Fix-pg_control-corruption-in-EXEC_BACKEND-startup.patch) at 2024-05-18 05:29:12 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at gmail.com> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (0003-Assert-that-ControlFileLock-is-held-within-UpdateCon.patch) at 2020-05-31 21:11:35 from "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn at amazon.com> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (v1-0001-Assert-that-ControlFileLock-is-held-exclusively-i.patch) at 2020-05-26 19:30:54 from "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn at amazon.com> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (0001-Fix-race-condition-that-could-corrupt-pg_control.patch) at 2020-05-22 04:51:47 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at gmail.com> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (v1-0001-Prevent-race-condition-when-writing-pg_control.patch) at 2020-05-04 17:44:21 from "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn at amazon.com> (Patch: Yes)

History

When	Who	What
2025-07-24 15:44:33	Álvaro Herrera (alvherre)	Moved from CF 2025-03 to CF PG19-2
2025-02-17 19:00:34	CFbot	Patch needs rebase
2025-02-12 16:04:19	Álvaro Herrera (alvherre)	Closed in commitfest 2025-01 with status: Moved to next CF
2024-12-10 06:45:18	Michael Paquier (michael-kun)	Closed in commitfest 2024-11 with status: Moved to next CF
2024-10-05 09:31:08	Andrey Borodin (x4m)	Closed in commitfest 2024-09 with status: Moved to next CF
2024-08-19 23:10:55	Noah Misch (nmisch)	New status: Waiting on Author
2024-07-15 03:36:53	Thomas Munro (macdice)	Changed reviewers to Noah Misch (nmisch)
2024-07-15 03:36:53	Thomas Munro (macdice)	Changed authors to Thomas Munro (macdice)
2024-07-15 03:36:36	Thomas Munro (macdice)	Attached mail thread 70BF24D6-DC51-443F-B55A-95735803842A@amazon.com
2024-07-15 03:36:36	Thomas Munro (macdice)	Created patch record