Re: BUG #5269: postgres backend terminates with SIGSEGV

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Justin Pitts <jpitts(at)bplglobal(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5269: postgres backend terminates with SIGSEGV
Date: 2010-01-14 15:16:50
Message-ID: 23567.1263482210@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Justin Pitts <jpitts(at)bplglobal(dot)net> writes:
> My guess is that I am not provoking a 'SI queue overrun'

The 100 temp table creations probably will do that just fine.

> Am I completely off base about how this should be reproducing?

Two points: the session you hope to have crash *must* be in serializable
mode, and the crash would actually happen in the transaction after the
one that's rolled back.

The error doesn't have to be a serialization error, so in principle
you should be able to make it fail with something as simple as

begin;
select 1/0;
rollback;
select * from foo;

as long as the ROLLBACK is done with a prepared statement and you've
forced a SI overrun since the ROLLBACK was prepared.

regards, tom lane

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