On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 01:18:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Realizing that 9989d37d prevents the assertion failure, I went
> to see if thorntail had shown EIO failures without assertions.
> Looking back 180 days, I found these:
>
> sysname | branch | snapshot | stage |
l
>
-----------+---------------+---------------------+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> thorntail | HEAD | 2021-03-19 21:28:15 | recoveryCheck | 2021-03-20 00:48:48.117 MSK [4089174:11]
008_fsm_truncation.plPANIC: could not fdatasync file "000000010000000000000002": Input/output error
> thorntail | HEAD | 2021-04-06 16:08:10 | recoveryCheck | 2021-04-06 19:30:54.103 MSK [3355008:11]
008_fsm_truncation.plPANIC: could not fdatasync file "000000010000000000000002": Input/output error
> thorntail | REL9_6_STABLE | 2021-04-12 02:38:04 | pg_basebackupCheck | pg_basebackup: could not fsync file
"000000010000000000000013":Input/output error
>
> So indeed the kernel-or-hardware problem is affecting other branches.
Having a flaky buildfarm member is bad news. I'll LD_PRELOAD the attached to
prevent fsync from reaching the kernel. Hopefully, that will make the
hardware-or-kernel trouble unreachable. (Changing 008_fsm_truncation.pl
wouldn't avoid this, because fsync=off doesn't affect syncs outside the
backend.)