postgresql/src/test
Alvaro Herrera 49d9cfc68b
Fix replay of create database records on standby
Crash recovery on standby may encounter missing directories when
replaying create database WAL records.  Prior to this patch, the standby
would fail to recover in such a case.  However, the directories could be
legitimately missing.  Consider a sequence of WAL records as follows:

    CREATE DATABASE
    DROP DATABASE
    DROP TABLESPACE

If, after replaying the last WAL record and removing the tablespace
directory, the standby crashes and has to replay the create database
record again, the crash recovery must be able to move on.

This patch adds a mechanism similar to invalid-page tracking, to keep a
tally of missing directories during crash recovery.  If all the missing
directory references are matched with corresponding drop records at the
end of crash recovery, the standby can safely continue following the
primary.

Backpatch to 13, at least for now.  The bug is older, but fixing it in
older branches requires more careful study of the interactions with
commit e6d8069522, which appeared in 13.

A new TAP test file is added to verify the condition.  However, because
it depends on commit d6d317dbf6, it can only be added to branch
master.  I (Álvaro) manually verified that the code behaves as expected
in branch 14.  It's a bit nervous-making to leave the code uncovered by
tests in older branches, but leaving the bug unfixed is even worse.
Also, the main reason this fix took so long is precisely that we
couldn't agree on a good strategy to approach testing for the bug, so
perhaps this is the best we can do.

Diagnosed-by: Paul Guo <paulguo@gmail.com>
Author: Paul Guo <paulguo@gmail.com>
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Author: Asim R Praveen <apraveen@pivotal.io>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEET0ZGx9AvioViLf7nbR_8tH9-=27DN5xWJ2P9-ROH16e4JUA@mail.gmail.com
2022-03-25 13:16:21 +01:00
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authentication Replace Test::More plans with done_testing 2022-02-11 20:54:44 +01:00
examples Update copyright for 2022 2022-01-07 19:04:57 -05:00
icu Fix global ICU collations for ICU < 54 2022-03-20 10:21:45 +01:00
isolation Fix risk of deadlock failure while dropping a partitioned index. 2022-03-21 12:22:13 -04:00
kerberos Replace Test::More plans with done_testing 2022-02-11 20:54:44 +01:00
ldap ldap tests: Add paths for openbsd. 2022-03-09 09:46:21 -08:00
locale pycodestyle (PEP 8) cleanup in Python scripts 2022-03-09 10:54:20 +01:00
mb Fix MB regression tests for WAL-logging of hash indexes. 2017-03-15 07:25:36 -04:00
modules Remove unused module imports from TAP tests 2022-03-24 20:51:40 +01:00
perl Remove unused module imports from TAP tests 2022-03-24 20:51:40 +01:00
recovery Fix replay of create database records on standby 2022-03-25 13:16:21 +01:00
regress Refactor DLSUFFIX handling 2022-03-25 08:56:02 +01:00
ssl Fix failures in SSL tests caused by out-of-tree keys and certificates 2022-03-22 13:20:31 +09:00
subscription Add decoding of sequences to built-in replication 2022-03-24 18:49:27 +01:00
Makefile Add option to use ICU as global locale provider 2022-03-17 11:13:16 +01:00
README Remove the option to build thread_test.c outside configure. 2020-10-21 12:08:48 -04:00

PostgreSQL tests
================

This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

authentication/
  Tests for authentication (but see also below)

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

kerberos/
  Tests for Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication and encryption

ldap/
  Tests for LDAP-based authentication

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

subscription/
  Tests for logical replication