Re: Assertion failure twophase.c (3) (testing HS/SR)

Can you still reproduce this or has some of the changes since then fixed
it? We never quite figured out the cause..

Erik Rijkers wrote:
> On Thu, March 4, 2010 17:00, Erik Rijkers wrote:
>> in a 9.0devel, primary+standby, cvs from 2010.03.04 01:30
>>
>> With three patches:
>>
>> new_smart_shutdown_20100201.patch
>> extend_format_of_recovery_info_funcs_v4.20100303.patch
>> fix-KnownAssignedXidsRemoveMany-1.patch
>>
>> pg_dump -d $db8.4.2 | psql -d $db9.0devel-primary
>>
>> FailedAssertion, File: "twophase.c", Line: 1201.
>>
>
> For the record, this still happens (FailedAssertion, File: "twophase.c", Line: 1201.)
> (created 2010.03.13 23:49 cvs).
>
> Unfortunately, it does not happen always, or predictably.
>
> patches:
> new_smart_shutdown_20100201.patch
> extend_format_of_recovery_info_funcs_v4.20100303.patch
> (both here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-03/msg00446.php )
>
> (fix-KnownAssignedXidsRemoveMany-1.patch has been committed, I think?)
>
>
> I use commandlines like this to copy schemas across from 8.4.2 to 9.0devel:
> pg_dump -c -h /tmp -p 5432 -n myschema --no-owner --no-privileges mydb \
> | psql -1qtA -h /tmp -p 7575 -d replicas
>
> (the copied schemas were together 175 GB)
>
> As I seem to be the only one who finds this, I started looking what could be unique in this
> install: and it would be postbio, which we use for its gist-indexing on ranges
> (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/postbio/). We use postbio's int_interval type as a column type.
> But keep in mind that sometimes the whole dump+restore+replication completes OK.
>
>
> Other installed modules are:
> contrib/btree_gist
> contrib/seg
> contrib/adminpack
>
> log_line_prefix = '%t %p %d %u start=%s ' # slave
>
> pgsql.sr_hotslave/logfile:
>
> 2010-03-13 23:54:59 CET 15765 start=2010-03-13 23:54:59 CET LOG: database system was
> interrupted; last known up at 2010-03-13 23:54:31 CET
> cp: cannot stat `/var/data1/pg_stuff/dump/hotslave/replication_archive/000000010000000000000001':
> No such file or directory
> 2010-03-13 23:55:00 CET 15765 start=2010-03-13 23:54:59 CET LOG: entering standby mode
> 2010-03-13 23:55:00 CET 15765 start=2010-03-13 23:54:59 CET LOG: redo starts at 0/1000020
> 2010-03-13 23:55:00 CET 15765 start=2010-03-13 23:54:59 CET LOG: consistent recovery state
> reached at 0/2000000
> 2010-03-13 23:55:00 CET 15763 start=2010-03-13 23:54:59 CET LOG: database system is ready to
> accept read only connections
> TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(((xid) != ((TransactionId) 0)))", File: "twophase.c", Line: 1201)
> 2010-03-14 05:28:59 CET 15763 start=2010-03-13 23:54:59 CET LOG: startup process (PID 15765)
> was terminated by signal 6: Aborted
> 2010-03-14 05:28:59 CET 15763 start=2010-03-13 23:54:59 CET LOG: terminating any other active
> server processes
>
>
> Maybe I'll try now to setup a similar instance without postbio, to see if the crash still occurs.
>
> hth,
>
> Erik Rijkers
>
>
>

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