Re: WAL does not recover gracefully from out-of-disk-space

Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> With current sources:
> 
> DEBUG:  copy: line 629980, XLogWrite: new log file created - try to increase WAL_FILES
> DEBUG:  copy: line 694890, XLogWrite: new log file created - try to increase WAL_FILES
> FATAL 2:  copy: line 759383, ZeroFill(logfile 0 seg 13) failed: No space left on device
> Server process (pid 3178) exited with status 512 at Fri Feb 23 21:53:19 2001
> Terminating any active server processes...
> Server processes were terminated at Fri Feb 23 21:53:19 2001
> Reinitializing shared memory and semaphores
> DEBUG:  starting up
> DEBUG:  database system was interrupted at 2001-02-23 21:53:11
> DEBUG:  CheckPoint record at (0, 21075456)
> DEBUG:  Redo record at (0, 21075456); Undo record at (0, 0); Shutdown TRUE
> DEBUG:  NextTransactionId: 4296; NextOid: 145211
> DEBUG:  database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress...
> DEBUG:  redo starts at (0, 21075520)
> The Data Base System is starting up
> DEBUG:  open(logfile 0 seg 0) failed: No such file or directory
> TRAP: Failed Assertion("!(readOff > 0):", File: "xlog.c", Line: 1441)
> !(readOff > 0) (0) [Bad file descriptor]
> postmaster: Startup proc 3179 exited with status 134 - abort
> 
> Regardless of whether this particular behavior is fixable, this brings
> up something that I think we *must* do before 7.1 release: create a
> utility that blows away a corrupted logfile to allow the system to
> restart with whatever is in the datafiles.  Otherwise, there is no
> recovery technique for WAL restart failures, short of initdb and
> restore from last backup.  I'd rather be able to get at data of
> questionable up-to-dateness than not have any chance of recovery
> at all.
> 

I've asked 2 or 3 times how to recover from recovery failure but
got no answer. We should some recipi for the failure before 7.1
release.

Regards,
Hiroshi Inoue