Re: Re: Vaccuum Failure w/7.1beta4 on Linux/Sparc -- FALSE ALARM

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Ryan Kirkpatrick <pgsql(at)rkirkpat(dot)net> writes:
> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> >> While testing some existing database applications on 7.1beta4 on
> >> my Sparc 20 running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, I got the following error on
> >> attempting to do a vacuum of a table:
> >>
> >> NOTICE: FlushRelationBuffers(jobs, 1399): block 953 is referenced (private 0, global 1)
> >> ERROR! Can't vacuum table Jobs! ERROR: VACUUM (repair_frag): FlushRelationBuffers returned -2
>
> This is probably explained by the problem we found a few days ago with
> BufferSync acquiring locks it shouldn't.

Yea, it was. I just tried RC1 on the Sparc with my application,
with the data directory NFS mounted, and it ran without errors
now. Thanks. :)

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