Re: Immediate shutdown causes the assertion failure in 9.4dev

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I encountered the following assertion failure when I executed
> an immediate shutdown.
>
> LOG: received immediate shutdown request
> WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server process
> DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back
> the current transaction and exit, because another server process
> exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
> HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and
> repeat your command.
> TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(CheckpointerPID == 0)", File: "postmaster.c",
> Line: 3440)
>
> The cause of this problem seems to be that PostmasterStateMachine()
> may fail to wait for the checkpointer to exit. Attached patch fixes this.

What commit broke this?

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