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-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c9
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c20
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c
index b55c3833703..b217ffa52ff 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@
#include "utils/rel.h"
+/* GUC variable */
+bool ignore_invalid_pages = false;
+
/*
* During XLOG replay, we may see XLOG records for incremental updates of
* pages that no longer exist, because their relation was later dropped or
@@ -93,7 +96,8 @@ log_invalid_page(RelFileNode node, ForkNumber forkno, BlockNumber blkno,
if (reachedConsistency)
{
report_invalid_page(WARNING, node, forkno, blkno, present);
- elog(PANIC, "WAL contains references to invalid pages");
+ elog(ignore_invalid_pages ? WARNING : PANIC,
+ "WAL contains references to invalid pages");
}
/*
@@ -240,7 +244,8 @@ XLogCheckInvalidPages(void)
}
if (foundone)
- elog(PANIC, "WAL contains references to invalid pages");
+ elog(ignore_invalid_pages ? WARNING : PANIC,
+ "WAL contains references to invalid pages");
hash_destroy(invalid_page_tab);
invalid_page_tab = NULL;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
index e44f71e9910..9f179a91295 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ extern int CommitSiblings;
extern char *default_tablespace;
extern char *temp_tablespaces;
extern bool ignore_checksum_failure;
+extern bool ignore_invalid_pages;
extern bool synchronize_seqscans;
#ifdef TRACE_SYNCSCAN
@@ -1173,6 +1174,25 @@ static struct config_bool ConfigureNamesBool[] =
NULL, NULL, NULL
},
{
+ {"ignore_invalid_pages", PGC_POSTMASTER, DEVELOPER_OPTIONS,
+ gettext_noop("Continues recovery after an invalid pages failure."),
+ gettext_noop("Detection of WAL records having references to "
+ "invalid pages during recovery causes PostgreSQL to "
+ "raise a PANIC-level error, aborting the recovery. "
+ "Setting ignore_invalid_pages to true causes "
+ "the system to ignore invalid page references "
+ "in WAL records (but still report a warning), "
+ "and continue recovery. This behavior may cause "
+ "crashes, data loss, propagate or hide corruption, "
+ "or other serious problems. Only has an effect "
+ "during recovery or in standby mode."),
+ GUC_NOT_IN_SAMPLE
+ },
+ &ignore_invalid_pages,
+ false,
+ NULL, NULL, NULL
+ },
+ {
{"full_page_writes", PGC_SIGHUP, WAL_SETTINGS,
gettext_noop("Writes full pages to WAL when first modified after a checkpoint."),
gettext_noop("A page write in process during an operating system crash might be "