Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests
Date: 2017-06-22 14:05:26
Message-ID: 3704785d-2c48-2606-fc8a-aeeb212f102d@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 06/21/2017 06:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Today, lorikeet failed with a new variant on the bgworker start crash:
>
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=lorikeet&dt=2017-06-21%2020%3A29%3A10
>
> This one is even more exciting than the last one, because it sure looks
> like the crashing bgworker took the postmaster down with it. That is
> Not Supposed To Happen.
>
> Wondering if we broke something here recently, I tried to reproduce it
> on a Linux machine by adding a randomized Assert failure in
> shm_mq_set_sender. I don't see any such problem, even with EXEC_BACKEND;
> we recover from the crash as-expected.
>
> So I'm starting to get a distinct feeling that there's something wrong
> with the cygwin port. But I dunno what.
>
>

:-(

Please let me know if there are tests I can run. I missed your earlier
request in this thread, sorry about that.

cheers

andrew

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