Re: "ERROR: latch already owned" on gharial

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 8:20 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 8:31 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 1:56 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > What I'm inclined to do is get gharial and anole removed from the
> > > buildfarm. anole was set up by Heikki in 2011. I don't know when
> > > gharial was set up, or by whom. I don't think anyone at EDB cares
> > > about these machines any more, or has any interest in maintaining
> > > them. I think the only reason they're still running is that, just by
> > > good fortune, they haven't fallen over and died yet. The hardest part
> > > of getting them taken out of the buildfarm is likely to be finding
> > > someone who has a working username and password to log into them and
> > > take the jobs out of the crontab.
> >
> > FWIW, in a previous investigation, Semab and Sandeep had access:
> >
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABimMB4mRs9N3eivR-%3DqF9M8oWc5E6OX7GywsWF0DXN4P5gNEA%40mail.gmail.com
>
> Yeah, I'm in touch with Sandeep but not able to get in yet for some
> reason. Will try to sort it out.

OK, I have access to the box now. I guess I might as well leave the
crontab jobs enabled until the next time this happens, since Thomas
just took steps to improve the logging, but I do think these BF
members are overdue to be killed off, and would like to do that as
soon as it seems like a reasonable step to take.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com