Re: Question about ALTER TABLE DROP CONSTRAINT on 9.1 -- psql crashes

From: Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Question about ALTER TABLE DROP CONSTRAINT on 9.1 -- psql crashes
Date: 2012-08-10 00:35:10
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Tom --

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>> WTF?  That should certainly not happen.  Have you perhaps got a script
>> that runs around sending SIGTERM to backends that it thinks are blocking
>> something?  Does anything show up in the postmaster log when this
>> happens?
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>No, we have processes that kill IDLE IN TRANSACTIONs ruthlessly, but nothing that kills any other processes. There is an outside chance that this ran at just the same time that a cronjob ran the REINDEX command for the table (unlikely but I am going to shut off the cronjob and try this again).
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>It does not log an ERROR to the log file; I can wade intio the log and see what else it says but it will take a little while (about 800 megs per hour) to answer that.
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>Thanks, and I'll report back soon.
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>Greg
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