Re: [BUG] [PATCH] pg_basebackup produces wrong incremental files after relation truncation in segmented tables

> On Dec 16, 2025, at 00:35, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [ sorry for not noticing this thread sooner; thanks to Andres for
> pointing me to it ]
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the reproducer; I can see the reported issue, but I am not
>> quite sure the proposed fix is correct and might break other cases (I
>> haven't tried constructed that case yet) but there is a comment
>> detailing that case just before the point where you are planning to do
>> the changes:
>>
>>    /*
>>     * The truncation block length is the minimum length of the reconstructed
>>     * file. Any block numbers below this threshold that are not present in
>>     * the backup need to be fetched from the prior backup. At or above this
>>     * threshold, blocks should only be included in the result if they are
>>     * present in the backup. (This may require inserting zero blocks if the
>>     * blocks included in the backup are non-consecutive.)
>>     */
>>
>> IIUC, we might need the original assignment logic as it is. But we
>> need to ensure that truncation_block_length is not set to a value that
>> exceeds RELSEG_SIZE.
>
> I think you're right. By way of example, let's say that the current
> length of the file is 200 blocks, but the limit block is 100 blocks
> into the current segment. That means that the only blocks that we can
> get from any previous backup are blocks 0-99. Blocks 100-199 of the
> current segment are either mentioned in the WAL summaries we're using
> for this backup, or they're all zeroes. We can't set the
> truncation_block_length to a value greater than 100, or we'll go
> looking for the contents of any zero-filled blocks in previous
> backups, will will either fail or produce the wrong answer. But Oleg
> is correct that we also shouldn't set it to a value greater than
> RELSEG_SIZE. So my guess is that the correct fix might be something
> like the attached (untested, for discussion).
>
> --
> Robert Haas
> EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
> <v1-0001-Don-t-set-the-truncation_block_length-rather-than.patch>


The change looks good to me. Only nitpick is:

```
Subject: [PATCH v1] Don't set the truncation_block_length rather than
 RELSEG_SIZE.
```

I guess you meant to say “larger (or greater) than” instead of “rather than”.

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