Re: BUG #19336: TRAP: failed Assert("!IsTransactionOrTransactionBlock()")

On 2025-Nov-27, PG Bug reporting form wrote:

> With this parameter in postgresql.conf: debug_parallel_query = on
>
> If you execute the query: SELECT pg_sleep_for('5 minutes');
>
> and then kill the postgres process with signal 9, you get the following in
> the log:
>
> 2025-11-27 06:44:27.263 UTC [643318] FATAL: postmaster exited during a
> parallel transaction
> TRAP: failed Assert("!IsTransactionOrTransactionBlock()"), File: "pgstat.c",
> Line: 673, PID: 643318
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.8(+0x831e0)[0x7058d98831e0]
> postgres: test postgres 127.0.0.1(44374)
> SELECT(ExceptionalCondition+0x156)[0x616e63da3dcf]
> postgres: test postgres 127.0.0.1(44374)
> SELECT(pgstat_report_stat+0x43)[0x616e635c9ced]
> postgres: test postgres 127.0.0.1(44374) SELECT(+0x51c29fe)[0x616e635c99fe]
> postgres: test postgres 127.0.0.1(44374)
> SELECT(shmem_exit+0x29f)[0x616e633beca2]
> postgres: test postgres 127.0.0.1(44374) SELECT(+0x4fb7750)[0x616e633be750]
>
> Maybe the Assert shouldn't be printed to the log, and only the following
> output should remain?

Hmm, why does it matter? If you've kill -9'd the process, everything
will be restarted anyway. It makes no difference whether the assertion
hits or not, does it?

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