fix(wal): recycle checkpointed wal.log.* files after checkpoint commit - #3506
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WalFile::RecycleWalFile was orphaned when the old txn implementation was removed (infiniflow#2667) and later commented out as dead code (infiniflow#3031), leaving WAL segment files to accumulate indefinitely (infiniflow#3435) - observed in production as 256k+ residual wal.log.* files causing multi-hour startup replay times. Re-enable RecycleWalFile and wire it into NewTxn::PostCommit() for checkpoint transactions: once SetLastCheckpointTS(current_ckp_ts_) is durable, any rotated wal.log.* file whose max commit ts is <= current_ckp_ts_ is fully covered by the checkpoint and safe to delete. The active (un-rotated) wal.log file is never touched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Recycling may leave the database unable to start after a power loss. Make the checkpoint WAL marker durable before deleting older segments. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@src/storage/wal/log_file_impl.cpp`:
- Line 102: Validate the WAL archive suffix during parsing before its timestamp
can reach the deletion condition using wal_info.max_commit_ts_ and
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Address CodeRabbit review comment on the PR: ParseWalFilenames used std::stoll to parse the timestamp suffix of a wal.log.<ts> filename. std::stoll silently accepts a numeric prefix (e.g. "120junk" -> 120) instead of rejecting the whole string, so a malformed or corrupted wal file name could be parsed as a valid, low timestamp. This was harmless while WalFile::RecycleWalFile was dead code, but now that RecycleWalFile actually deletes files based on this parsed timestamp, a bogus low value could cause a wal file to be deleted even though it's not actually covered by the checkpoint. Switch to std::from_chars and require the whole suffix to be consumed as a valid, canonical unsigned integer before treating the file as a recognized wal.log.* file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟠 Major · Synchronize the checkpoint WAL before recycling archived segments. · new_txn_impl.cpp:4641-4649
src/storage/new_txn/new_txn_impl.cpp:4641-4649
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftSynchronize the checkpoint WAL before recycling archived segments.
WalManager::NewFlush()writes theWalCmdCheckpointV2marker and calls onlyofs_.flush().NewTxn::PostCommit()then deletes archived WAL files. A stream flush does not make the marker durable across power loss. If power loss removes the marker after recycling, startup recovery finds WAL files without a checkpoint marker and raisesUnrecoverableError("No checkpoint found in WAL").The replication path does not close this gap.
FlushLogByReplication()also calls onlyofs_.flush(). Add an explicit WAL durability barrier, such asLocalFileHandle::Sync(), beforeRecycleWalFile(). A stream flush may cover a process-only crash, but it does not establish the power-loss guarantee required by this deletion.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/storage/new_txn/new_txn_impl.cpp`:
- Around line 4641-4649: In the kNewCheckpoint branch of NewTxn::PostCommit(),
ensure the checkpoint WAL marker is durably synchronized before calling
RecycleWalFile; stream flushing alone is insufficient. Add or reuse an explicit
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Problem
WalFile::RecycleWalFilewas orphaned when the old transactionimplementation was removed, and later commented out as dead code
with no remaining callers. As a result, rotated
wal.log.*segmentsare never cleaned up, even after they are fully covered by a
completed checkpoint — see #3435.
Git history of how this regressed:
cdc5e23— "Remove old txn (Remove old txn #2667)" (2025-06-04): removed the oldtransaction implementation, including
WalManager::CommitDeltaCheckpointand its call to
WalFile::RecycleWalFile(max_commit_ts, wal_dir_).No equivalent cleanup call was added to the new
new_txnsystem atthe time.
e179d42— "Remove unused code in dir catalog, new_txn, wal (Remove unused code in dir catalog, new_txn, wal #3031)"(2025-10-17): a dead-code cleanup pass found
RecycleWalFilehadzero call sites and commented out the function body entirely
(kept, not deleted, "for reference").
Neither commit message indicates this was an intentional decision to
stop recycling WAL files — it reads as an unintended gap left by the
txn-system migration, not a deliberate design change.
Real-world impact: in production this manifested as 256,000+
residual
wal.log.*files (each ~164 bytes, some dating backmonths) on a Ceph-RBD-backed volume. On restart,
WalManagerreplaysevery rotated WAL file it finds; with this many small files the
per-file open/read overhead over network-attached block storage
turned a 6.5GB logical dataset into a multi-hour startup replay,
which combined with a k8s livenessProbe kept getting killed mid-replay
before completion, accumulating even more WAL on each attempt.
Fix
Re-enable
WalFile::RecycleWalFile(max_commit_ts, wal_dir)(logicunchanged from the original, pre-#3031 implementation) and wire it
back in at the correct, current call site:
WalManager::RecycleWalFile(TxnTimeStamp max_commit_ts)— newthin wrapper that calls
WalFile::RecycleWalFile(max_commit_ts, wal_dir_).NewTxn::PostCommit()— for akNewCheckpointtransaction, rightafter
wal_manager->SetLastCheckpointTS(current_ckp_ts_)durablyrecords the checkpoint, call
wal_manager->RecycleWalFile(current_ckp_ts_).At that point
current_ckp_ts_is guaranteed durable, so any rotatedwal.log.*file whosemax_commit_ts_ <= current_ckp_ts_is fullyredundant for recovery and safe to delete. The active, not-yet-rotated
wal.logfile is never touched (unaffected by this change, sinceParseWalFilenamesreports it separately ascur_wal_info).Scope / what this does NOT change
logic itself — only re-adds the missing cleanup step after a
checkpoint completes. Unrelated to Fix corrupt WAL handling: out-of-bounds reads and over-aggressive purge #3429 (corrupt WAL entry
handling), which addresses a different code path.
existing deployments; recycling only runs going forward, after each
new checkpoint.
Testing
I was not able to build or run the test suite locally — my dev
machine is an Apple Silicon (arm64) Mac, and per
docs/getstarted/build_from_source.mdx, Infinity only supportsnative compilation on Linux; building via Docker on this machine is
possible but slow/impractical for iterating given the project's
dependency footprint (vcpkg + full C++20 modules build). I'm relying
on this repo's CI (
debug_amd64_unit_test/debug_arm64_unit_testetc. in
tests.yml) to validate the build and existing WAL/checkpointunit tests.
cilabel so thetest matrix runs, and any pointers on whether a targeted test
for "large WAL backlog gets recycled after checkpoint" would be
welcome as a follow-up commit — happy to add one if there's a
preferred pattern/fixture for this in the existing test suite.
Related issues
Fixes #3435.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 noreply@anthropic.com