On 2019-09-28 19:45, Tom Lane wrote: > Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I think that rather than adding error > checks that were not there before, the right path to fixing this is > to cause these settings to be ignored if we're doing crash recovery.
That makes sense to me. Something like this (untested)? diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c index 0daab3ff4b..25cae57131 100644 --- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c +++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c @@ -5618,6 +5618,13 @@ recoveryStopsBefore(XLogReaderState *record) TimestampTz recordXtime = 0; TransactionId recordXid; + /* + * Ignore recovery target settings when not in archive recovery (meaning + * we are in crash recovery). + */ + if (!InArchiveRecovery) + return false; + /* Check if we should stop as soon as reaching consistency */ if (recoveryTarget == RECOVERY_TARGET_IMMEDIATE && reachedConsistency) { @@ -5759,6 +5766,13 @@ recoveryStopsAfter(XLogReaderState *record) uint8 rmid; TimestampTz recordXtime; + /* + * Ignore recovery target settings when not in archive recovery (meaning + * we are in crash recovery). + */ + if (!InArchiveRecovery) + return false; + info = XLogRecGetInfo(record) & ~XLR_INFO_MASK; rmid = XLogRecGetRmid(record); -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services