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Startup process has improved its calculation of incorrect minimum consistent point in 8d68ee6, which ensures that all WAL available gets replayed when doing crash recovery, and has introduced an incorrect calculation of the minimum recovery point for non-startup processes, which can cause incorrect page references on a standby when for example the background writer flushed a couple of pages on-disk but was not updating the control file to let a subsequent crash recovery replay to where it should have. The only case where this has been reported to be a problem is when a standby needs to calculate the latest removed xid when replaying a btree deletion record, so one would need connections on a standby that happen just after recovery has thought it reached a consistent point. Using a background worker which is started after the consistent point is reached would be the easiest way to get into problems if it connects to a database. Having clients which attempt to connect periodically could also be a problem, but the odds of seeing this problem are much lower. The fix used is pretty simple, as the idea is to give access to the minimum recovery point written in the control file to non-startup processes so as they use a reference, while the startup process still initializes its own references of the minimum consistent point so as the original problem with incorrect page references happening post-promotion with a crash do not show up. Reported-by: Alexander Kukushkin Diagnosed-by: Alexander Kukushkin Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Kukushkin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153492341830.1368.3936905691758473953@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.3
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