The XLogRecordPageWithFreeSpace function updates the freespace map (FSM) data
while replaying data-level WAL records during the recovery. If the FSM block
is updated, it needs to be marked as modified. Currently, this is done with
the MarkBufferDirtyHint call (as in all other cases for modifying FSM data).
However, in the recovery context, this function will actually do nothing if
checksums are enabled. It's assumed that the page should not be dirtied
during recovery while modifying hints to protect against torn pages, since no
new WAL data can be generated at this point to store FPI.
Such logic does not seem fully aligned with the FSM case, as its blocks could
be simply zeroed if a checksum mismatch is detected. Currently, changes to an
FSM block could be lost if each change to that block occurs infrequently
enough to allow it to be evicted from the cache. To persist the change, the
modification needs to be performed while the FSM block is still kept in
buffers and marked as dirty after receiving its FPI. If the block has already
been cleaned, the change won't be persisted, so stored FSM blocks may remain
in an obsolete state.
If a large number of discrepancies between the data in leaf FSM blocks and the
actual data blocks accumulate on the replica server, this could cause
significant delays in insert operations after switchover. Such an insert
operation may need to visit many data blocks marked as having sufficient
space in the FSM, only to discover that the information is incorrect and the
FSM records need to be corrected. In a heavily trafficked insert-only table
with many concurrent clients performing inserts, this has been observed to
cause several-second stalls, causing visible application malfunction. The
desire to avoid such cases was the reason behind the commit
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.
General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html.
The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.