Re: [BUGS] BUG #5412: test case produced, possible race condition.

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Rusty Conover" <rconover(at)infogears(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #5412: test case produced, possible race condition.
Date: 2010-04-14 21:45:24
Message-ID: 4BC5F12402000025000308E4@gw.wicourts.gov
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> The seed alone wouldn't be enough to duplicate the behavior, since
> the behavior of random() typically varies across platforms. So we
> might get a report and still be unable to reproduce it.

At least the person getting the initial failure would be able to
recreate it, and possibly provide a stack trace.

-Kevin

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