Re: logical decoding : exceeded maxAllocatedDescs for .spill files

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:10 AM Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 14:16, Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What I found was : We do attempt to close the opened vfds in the
> > PG_CATCH block. In ReorderBufferCommit(), ReorderBufferIterTXNFinish
> > is called both in PG_TRY and PG_CATCH. This closes all the opened
> > vfds. But the issue is : if the ereport() occurs inside
> > ReorderBufferIterTXNInit(), then iterstate is still NULL. So in
> > PG_CATCH, ReorderBufferIterTXNFinish() is not called, so the vfds in
> > state->entries[] remain open.
> >
> > We can have &iterstate passed to ReorderBufferIterTXNInit() as another
> > argument, and initialize it first thing inside the function. This way,
> > it will never be NULL. But need to be careful about the possibility of
> > having a iterstate in a half-cooked state, so cleanup might use some
> > uninitialized handles. Will work on it. At least, we can make sure the
> > iterstate->entries handle doesn't have junk values.
>
> Done as stated above; attached v3 patch. I have verified that the file
> handles do get closed in PG_CATCH block via
> ReorderBufferIterTXNFinish().
>

I couldn't reproduce the original problem (on HEAD) reported with the
test case in the patch.  So, I can't verify the fix.  I think it is
because of recent commits cec2edfa7859279f36d2374770ca920c59c73dd8 and
9290ad198b15d6b986b855d2a58d087a54777e87.  It seems you need to either
change the value of logical_decoding_work_mem or change the test in
some way so that the original problem can be reproduced.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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