Re: Startup process on a hot standby crashes with an error "invalid memory alloc request size 1073741824" while replaying "Standby/LOCK" records

On Mon, 5 Sept 2022 at 22:38, Dmitriy Kuzmin <kuzmin.db4@gmail.com> wrote:
> One of our clients experienced a crash of startup process with an error "invalid memory alloc request size
1073741824"on a hot standby, which ended in replica reinit.
 
>
> According to logs, startup process crashed while trying to replay "Standby/LOCK" record with a huge list of locks(see
attachedreplicalog_tail.tgz):
 
>
> FATAL:  XX000: invalid memory alloc request size 1073741824
> CONTEXT:  WAL redo at 7/327F9248 for Standby/LOCK: xid 1638575 db 7550635 rel 8500880 xid 1638575 db 7550635 rel
10324499...
> LOCATION:  repalloc, mcxt.c:1075
> BACKTRACE:
>         postgres: startup recovering 000000010000000700000033(repalloc+0x61) [0x8d7611]
>         postgres: startup recovering 000000010000000700000033() [0x691c29]
>         postgres: startup recovering 000000010000000700000033() [0x691c74]
>         postgres: startup recovering 000000010000000700000033(lappend+0x16) [0x691e76]

This must be the repalloc() in enlarge_list(). 1073741824 / 8 is
134,217,728 (2^27). That's quite a bit more than 1 lock per your 950k
tables.

I wonder why the RecoveryLockListsEntry.locks list is getting so long.

from the file you attached, I see:
$ cat replicalog_tail | grep -Eio "rel\s([0-9]+)" | wc -l
950000

So that confirms there were 950k relations in the xl_standby_locks.
The contents of that message seem to be produced by standby_desc().
That should be the same WAL record that's processed by standby_redo()
which adds the 950k locks to the RecoveryLockListsEntry.

I'm not seeing why 950k becomes 134m.

David