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Add retries to PostgreSQL sleep when starting a backup.

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Inaccuracies in sleep time or clock skew might make a single sleep insufficient to reach the next second.

Add a few retries to make the process more reliable but still avoid an infinite loop if something is seriously wrong.
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David Steele
2020-12-02 22:41:14 -05:00
parent ec9f23d31f
commit d4211d3aaf
3 changed files with 39 additions and 7 deletions
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test/src/module/command/backupTest.c
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@ -1206,7 +1206,7 @@ testRun(void)
const String *repoPath = strNewFmt("%s/repo", testPath());
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TEST_TITLE("error when second does not advance after sleep");
TEST_TITLE("sleep retries and stall error");
StringList *argList = strLstNew();
strLstAddZ(argList, "--" CFGOPT_STANZA "=test1");
@ -1225,9 +1225,16 @@ testRun(void)
// Connect to primary
HRNPQ_MACRO_OPEN_GE_92(1, "dbname='postgres' port=5432", PG_VERSION_93, strZ(pg1Path), false, NULL, NULL),
// Don't advance time after wait
// Advance the time slowly to force retries
HRNPQ_MACRO_TIME_QUERY(1, 1575392588998),
HRNPQ_MACRO_TIME_QUERY(1, 1575392588999),
HRNPQ_MACRO_TIME_QUERY(1, 1575392589001),
// Stall time to force an error
HRNPQ_MACRO_TIME_QUERY(1, 1575392589998),
HRNPQ_MACRO_TIME_QUERY(1, 1575392589997),
HRNPQ_MACRO_TIME_QUERY(1, 1575392589998),
HRNPQ_MACRO_TIME_QUERY(1, 1575392589999),
HRNPQ_MACRO_DONE()
});
@ -1235,7 +1242,9 @@ testRun(void)
BackupData *backupData = backupInit(
infoBackupNew(PG_VERSION_93, PG_VERSION_93, pgCatalogTestVersion(PG_VERSION_93), NULL));
TEST_ERROR(backupTime(backupData, true), AssertError, "invalid sleep for online backup time with wait remainder");
TEST_RESULT_INT(backupTime(backupData, true), 1575392588, "multiple tries for sleep");
TEST_ERROR(backupTime(backupData, true), KernelError, "PostgreSQL clock has not advanced to the next second after 3 tries");
dbFree(backupData->dbPrimary);
}