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Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/storage/buffer')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c index 6afdd28dba6..67431208e7f 100644 --- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c +++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c @@ -2743,12 +2743,10 @@ ExtendBufferedRelShared(BufferManagerRelation bmr, * because mdread doesn't complain about reads beyond EOF (when * zero_damaged_pages is ON) and so a previous attempt to read a block * beyond EOF could have left a "valid" zero-filled buffer. - * Unfortunately, we have also seen this case occurring because of - * buggy Linux kernels that sometimes return an lseek(SEEK_END) result - * that doesn't account for a recent write. In that situation, the - * pre-existing buffer would contain valid data that we don't want to - * overwrite. Since the legitimate cases should always have left a - * zero-filled buffer, complain if not PageIsNew. + * + * This has also been observed when relation was overwritten by + * external process. Since the legitimate cases should always have + * left a zero-filled buffer, complain if not PageIsNew. */ if (existing_id >= 0) { @@ -2778,8 +2776,7 @@ ExtendBufferedRelShared(BufferManagerRelation bmr, ereport(ERROR, (errmsg("unexpected data beyond EOF in block %u of relation %s", existing_hdr->tag.blockNum, - relpath(bmr.smgr->smgr_rlocator, fork).str), - errhint("This has been seen to occur with buggy kernels; consider updating your system."))); + relpath(bmr.smgr->smgr_rlocator, fork).str))); /* * We *must* do smgr[zero]extend before succeeding, else the page |