Re: dsa_allocate() faliure

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
To: Arne Roland <A(dot)Roland(at)index(dot)de>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: dsa_allocate() faliure
Date: 2019-02-04 21:47:08
Message-ID: 20190204214708.GI29720@telsasoft.com
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 08:31:47PM +0000, Arne Roland wrote:
> I could take a backup and restore the relevant tables on a throwaway system. You are just suggesting to replace line 728
> elog(FATAL,
> "dsa_allocate could not find %zu free pages", npages);
> by
> elog(PANIC,
> "dsa_allocate could not find %zu free pages", npages);
> correct? Just for my understanding: why would the shutdown of the whole instance create more helpful logging?

You'd also start with pg_ctl -c, which would allow it to dump core, which could
be inspected with GDB to show a backtrace and other internals, which up to now
nobody (including myself) has been able to provide.

Justin

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