Re: archive recovery fetching wrong segments

On 4/6/20 10:51 PM, David Steele wrote:
> On 4/6/20 3:23 PM, Grigory Smolkin wrote:
>>
>> On 4/6/20 9:17 PM, David Steele wrote:
>>> Hi Grigory,
>>
>> Hello!
>>>
>>> On 4/5/20 8:02 PM, Grigory Smolkin wrote:
>>>> Hello, hackers!
>>>>
>>>> I`m investigating a complains from our clients about archive 
>>>> recovery speed been very slow, and I`ve noticed a really strange 
>>>> and, I think, a very dangerous recovery behavior.
>>>>
>>>> When running multi-timeline archive recovery, for every requested 
>>>> segno startup process iterates through every timeline in restore 
>>>> target timeline history, starting from highest timeline and ending 
>>>> in current, and tries to fetch the segno in question from this 
>>>> timeline.
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> Is there a reason behind this behavior?
>>>>
>>>> Also I`ve  attached a patch, which fixed this issue for me, but I`m 
>>>> not sure, that chosen approach is sound and didn`t break something.
>>>
>>> This sure looks like [1] which has a completed patch nearly ready to 
>>> commit. Can you confirm and see if the proposed patch looks good?
>>
>> Well I`ve been testing it all day and so far nothing is broken.
>
> Perhaps I wasn't clear. There is a patch in this thread:
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https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/792ea085-95c4-bca0-ae82-47fdc80e146d%40oss.nttdata.com#800f005e01af6cb3bfcd70c53007a2db

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> which seems to address the same issue and is ready to be committed.
>
> I'd suggest you have a look at that patch and see if it fixes your issue.

Ops, I`ve missed it.
Thank you, I will look into it.


>
> Regards,

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