On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 1:27 PM Paul Guo <p...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > create db with tablespace > drop database > drop tablespace.
Essentially, that sequence of operations causes crash recovery to fail if the "drop tablespace" transaction was committed before crashing. This is a bug in crash recovery in general and should be reproducible without configuring a standby. Is that right? Your patch creates missing directories in the destination. Don't we need to create the tablespace symlink under pg_tblspc/? I would prefer extending the invalid page mechanism to deal with this, as suggested by Ashwin off-list. It will allow us to avoid creating directories and files only to remove them shortly afterwards when the drop database and drop tablespace records are replayed. Asim
