Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Upgrade to Autoconf 2.69

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

Heikki, Andres,

> Shortly after this patch was committed, buildfarm member locust (running
> Mac OS X 10.5 apparently) started failing the pg_upgrade check:
> 
> command:
"/Users/pgbuildfarm/Documents/workdir/HEAD/pgsql.82393/contrib/pg_upgrade/tmp_check/install//Users/pgbuildfarm/Documents/workdir//HEAD/inst/bin/pg_ctl"
-w-l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D
"/Users/pgbuildfarm/Documents/workdir/HEAD/pgsql.82393/contrib/pg_upgrade/tmp_check/data"-o "-p 57632 -b -c
synchronous_commit=off-c fsync=off -c full_page_writes=off  -c listen_addresses='' -c unix_socket_permissions=0700 -c
unix_socket_directories='/Users/pgbuildfarm/Documents/workdir/HEAD/pgsql.82393/contrib/pg_upgrade'"start >>
"pg_upgrade_server.log"2>&1
 
> waiting for server to start....LOG:  database system was shut down at 2013-12-19 12:51:16 CET
> LOG:  invalid primary checkpoint record
> LOG:  invalid secondary checkpoint link in control file
> PANIC:  could not locate a valid checkpoint record

Any comment on this problem?  Somehow ReadRecord is unable to find a
checkpoint, yet there's no error message to be seen anywhere, whereas
pg_resetxlog does report it:

> command:
"/Users/pgbuildfarm/Documents/workdir/HEAD/pgsql.82393/contrib/pg_upgrade/tmp_check/install//Users/pgbuildfarm/Documents/workdir//HEAD/inst/bin/pg_resetxlog"
-l000000010000000000000009 "/Users/pgbuildfarm/Documents/workdir/HEAD/pgsql.82393/contrib/pg_upgrade/tmp_check/data" >>
"pg_upgrade_utility.log"2>&1
 
> pg_resetxlog: could not read from directory "pg_xlog": Invalid argument

I cannot but think xlogreader is at fault.

Regardless of the solution to the Mac OS X problem, ISTM this should be
fixed.

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