Re: Possible stability issue: permanent hang on dropdb

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Possible stability issue: permanent hang on dropdb
Date: 2010-02-07 13:58:20
Message-ID: 603c8f071002070558i3cd0422er8f08ecd68a54444b@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2/6/10 8:20 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:43 PM, The Fuzzy Chef <fuzzy(at)fuzzychef(dot)org> wrote:
>>>> It's too bad you didn't capture a stack backtrace at step #3 or step
>>>> #6.  If you manage to reproduce the problem, that would be a good
>>>> thing to try to get.
>>> Well, I never got an actual crash.
>>
>> That's OK - you can still attach gdb and see where it's hung up...  it
>> would have been really nice to see what that "hung" drop database
>> thought it was doing...
>
> Yep, sorry.  Was trying to get the system working first, and then
> afterwards thought it might be worth reporting.
>
> Anything I can mine out of the logs or files?

I'm not familiar enough to say; but I wonder if you could try to
reproduce the problem on (a copy of) your saved directory.

...Robert

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