Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.5 items

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.5 items
Date: 1999-05-31 06:14:42
Message-ID: 199905310614.CAA11761@candle.pha.pa.us
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> I couldn't explain more because of my poor English,sorry.
>
> But my test case usually causes backend abort.
> My test case is
> While 1 or more sessions frequently insert/update a table,
> vacuum the table.
>
> After vacuum, those sessions abort with message
> ERROR: cannot open segment .. of relation ...
>
> This ERROR finally causes spinlock freeze as I reported in a posting
> [HACKERS] spinlock freeze ?(Re: INSERT/UPDATE waiting (another
> example)).
>
> Comments ?

OK, I buy that. How will truncate fix things? Isn't that going to be
strange too. Hard to imagine how we are going to modify these things.
I am now leaning to the truncate option, especially considering that
usually only the last segment is going to be truncated.

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