Re: [GENERAL] Weird postmaster crashes

From: Dmitry Tkach <dmitry(at)openratings(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Weird postmaster crashes
Date: 2003-06-10 21:55:46
Message-ID: 3EE653E2.9050806@openratings.com
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Makes sense. Thanks!

One more thing to clarify - when you said it was fixed in .3 and .4 did
you mean 7.3 or 7.2.3?

Thanks!

Dima

Tom Lane wrote:

>Dmitry Tkach <dmitry(at)openratings(dot)com> writes:
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>
>>2003-06-10 13:53:32 [14551] FATAL 1: LWLockAcquire: can't wait without
>>a PROC structure
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>>Could you give me some idea on what circumstances cause this to happen?
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>IIRC, it's an order-of-operations mistake during backend shutdown: the
>proc structure is deallocated while it's still possible to receive an
>interrupt from another backend --- and if you get such an interrupt, you
>need the proc. So from the user's point of view it's pretty
>unpredictable.
>
>Short answer: upgrade. This is not the only nasty bug in 7.2.1.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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