Re: Anti-critical-section assertion failure in mcxt.c reached by walsender

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Anti-critical-section assertion failure in mcxt.c reached by walsender
Date: 2021-05-07 04:30:11
Message-ID: 8728.1620361811@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2021-05-06 21:43:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> That I'm not sure about. gdb is certainly installed, and thorntail is
>> visibly running the current buildfarm client and is configured with the
>> correct core_file_glob, and I can report that the crash did leave a 'core'
>> file in the data directory (so it's not a case of systemd commandeering
>> the core dump). Seems like core-file collection should've worked
>> ... unless maybe it's not covering TAP tests at all?

> I suspect that is it - there's not really a good way for the buildfarm
> client to even know where there could be data directories :(.

Does it need to? I'm envisioning "find tmp_check -name '$core_file_glob'"
or something along that line.

regards, tom lane

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