Switch to FATAL error for missing checkpoint record without backup_label
commit : 03facc1211b0ff1550f41bcd4da09329080c30f9
author : Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
date : Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:00:05 +0900
committer: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
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Crash recovery started without a backup_label previously crashed with a
PANIC if the checkpoint record could not be found. This commit lowers
the report generated to be a FATAL instead.
With recovery methods being more imaginative these days, this should
provide more flexibility when handling PostgreSQL recovery processing in
the event of a driver error, similarly to 15f68cebdcec. An extra
benefit of this change is that it becomes possible to add a test to
check that a FATAL is hit with an expected error message pattern. With
the recovery code becoming more complicated over the last couple of
years, I suspect that this will be benefitial to cover in the long-term.
The original PANIC behavior has been introduced in the early days of
crash recovery, as of 4d14fe0048cf (PANIC did not exist yet, the code
used STOP).
Author: Nitin Jadhav <nitinjadhavpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMm1aWZbQ-Acp_xAxC7mX9uZZMH8+NpfepY9w=AOxbBVT9E=uA@mail.gmail.com
M src/backend/access/transam/xlogrecovery.c
M src/test/recovery/meson.build
A src/test/recovery/t/052_checkpoint_segment_missing.pl
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author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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M configure
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author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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M configure
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M configure
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author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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