Re: BUG #5269: postgres backend terminates with SIGSEGV

From: Justin Pitts <jpitts(at)bplglobal(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5269: postgres backend terminates with SIGSEGV
Date: 2010-01-14 15:25:46
Message-ID: EA2B064A-2D8C-4948-8F72-C57EFF39863E@bplglobal.net
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As difficult as it was to reproduce the bug, I'd like a clear cut regression test. The use case where it manifested is fairly rare in normal use - server start after prolonged outage, where the queue of inbound device events is built up enough to make serialization errors more likely.
On Jan 14, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> BTW --- from my own perspective, what is much more interesting is
> testing time on your real application to make sure that you don't
> see a crash any more. I am certain that I identified and fixed
> *a* bug, what I'm less certain about is that it is actually what
> you were hitting. The previous advice would help you reproduce
> the bug that I fixed, but ...
>
> regards, tom lane

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