Re: [HACKERS] Aborted Transaction During Vacuum

Tom Lane wrote:
>"Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>> As far as I recall, the only error message he has listed so far is from
>> psql, which merely records the unlink failure at the end of the vacuum.
>> Everything else looks remarkably like the vc_abort bug.
>
>But the vc_abort problem didn't cause a backend coredump --- it just
>reported an error and failed to complete the vacuum, no?
>

I got a coredump too; I never mentioned it, because I found the proximate
cause and curing that made it go away. When unlink failed in vc_shutdown,
it called ELOG and a segfault occurred a little later.

I forgot about that when your patch fixed the original problem.

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