Hi, When using -b, --bkp-details pg_waldump outputs an unnecessary newline for blocks that contain an FPW.
In --bkp-details block references are output on their own lines, like: rmgr: SPGist len (rec/tot): 4348/ 4348, tx: 980, lsn: 0/01985818, prev 0/01983850, desc: PICKSPLIT ndel 92; nins 93 blkref #0: rel 1663/16384/16967 fork main blk 3 blkref #1: rel 1663/16384/16967 fork main blk 6 blkref #2: rel 1663/16384/16967 fork main blk 5 blkref #3: rel 1663/16384/16967 fork main blk 1 rmgr: Heap len (rec/tot): 69/ 69, tx: 980, lsn: 0/01986930, prev 0/01985818, desc: INSERT off 2 flags 0x00 blkref #0: rel 1663/16384/16961 fork main blk 1 but unfortunately, when there's actually an FPW present, it looks like: rmgr: XLOG len (rec/tot): 75/ 11199, tx: 977, lsn: 0/019755E0, prev 0/0194EDD8, desc: FPI blkref #0: rel 1663/16384/16960 fork main blk 32 (FPW); hole: offset: 548, length: 4484 blkref #1: rel 1663/16384/16960 fork main blk 33 (FPW); hole: offset: 548, length: 4484 blkref #2: rel 1663/16384/16960 fork main blk 34 (FPW); hole: offset: 548, length: 4484 rmgr: Heap len (rec/tot): 188/ 188, tx: 977, lsn: 0/019781D0, prev 0/019755E0, desc: INPLACE off 23 which clearly seems unnecessary. Looking at the code it seems to me that static void XLogDumpDisplayRecord(XLogDumpConfig *config, XLogReaderState *record) { ... printf("\tblkref #%u: rel %u/%u/%u fork %s blk %u", block_id, rnode.spcNode, rnode.dbNode, rnode.relNode, forkNames[forknum], blk); if (XLogRecHasBlockImage(record, block_id)) { if (record->blocks[block_id].bimg_info & BKPIMAGE_IS_COMPRESSED) { printf(" (FPW%s); hole: offset: %u, length: %u, " "compression saved: %u\n", XLogRecBlockImageApply(record, block_id) ? "" : " for WAL verification", record->blocks[block_id].hole_offset, record->blocks[block_id].hole_length, BLCKSZ - record->blocks[block_id].hole_length - record->blocks[block_id].bimg_len); } else { printf(" (FPW%s); hole: offset: %u, length: %u\n", XLogRecBlockImageApply(record, block_id) ? "" : " for WAL verification", record->blocks[block_id].hole_offset, record->blocks[block_id].hole_length); } } putchar('\n'); was intended to not actually print a newline in the printfs in the if preceding the putchar. This is a fairly longstanding bug, introduced in: commit 2c03216d831160bedd72d45f712601b6f7d03f1c Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@iki.fi> Date: 2014-11-20 17:56:26 +0200 Revamp the WAL record format. Does anybody have an opinion about fixing it just in master or also backpatching it? I guess there could be people having written parsers for the waldump output? I'm inclined to backpatch. I also find a second minor bug: static void XLogDumpDisplayRecord(XLogDumpConfig *config, XLogReaderState *record) { ... const char *id; ... id = desc->rm_identify(info); if (id == NULL) id = psprintf("UNKNOWN (%x)", info & ~XLR_INFO_MASK); ... printf("desc: %s ", id); after that "id" is not referenced anymore. Which means we would leak memory if there were a lot of UNKNOWN records. This is from commit 604f7956b9460192222dd37bd3baea24cb669a47 Author: Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> Date: 2014-09-22 16:48:14 +0200 Improve code around the recently added rm_identify rmgr callback. While not a lot of memory, it's not absurd to run pg_waldump against a large amount of WAL, so backpatching seems mildly advised. I'm inlined to think that the best fix is to just move the relevant code to the callsite, and not psprintf'ing into a temporary buffer. We'd need additional state to free the memory, as rm_identify returns a static buffer. So I'll make it id = desc->rm_identify(info); if (id == NULL) printf("desc: UNKNOWN (%x) ", info & ~XLR_INFO_MASK); else printf("desc: %s ", id); Greetings, Andres Freund