On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. Where do the FF files come from? In 9.2, FF-segments are not supposed to
> created, ever.
>
> I think we should add a check in walreceiver, to throw an error if the
> master sends an invalid WAL pointer, pointing to an FF segment.
Attached is a patch for that. This would be needed for PG < 9.3 if applied.
Regards,
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Michael
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c b/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c
index 753316e..4f4d019 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c
@@ -789,6 +789,24 @@ ProcessWalSndrMessage(XLogRecPtr walEnd, TimestampTz sendTime)
walrcv->lastMsgReceiptTime = lastMsgReceiptTime;
SpinLockRelease(&walrcv->mutex);
+ /*
+ * Check that the WAL position received from sender is valid and does
+ * refer to a segment file whose name finishes by FF.
+ */
+ if ((walEnd.xlogid & 0xff) == 0xff)
+ {
+ char xlogfilename[MAXFNAMELEN];
+ uint32 xlogseg;
+ uint32 xlogid;
+
+ XLByteToPrevSeg(walEnd, xlogid, xlogseg);
+ XLogFileName(xlogfilename, ThisTimeLineID, xlogid, xlogseg);
+ ereport(ERROR,
+ (errcode(ERRCODE_PROTOCOL_VIOLATION),
+ errmsg_internal("invalid WAL position %X/%X referring to segment %s",
+ walEnd.xlogid, walEnd.xrecoff, xlogfilename)));
+ }
+
if (log_min_messages <= DEBUG2)
{
char *sendtime;
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