Re: Non-reproducible AIO failure

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Non-reproducible AIO failure
Date: 2025-05-27 19:18:50
Message-ID: CA+TgmobVq4Lkyg5gOe_eyENJ1F==Q3Td+d5zf=pUBuK4uK+Thg@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> The fact that I can trace through this Assert failure but not the
> AIO one strongly suggests some system-level problem in the latter.
> There is something rotten in the state of Denmark.

I have been quite frustrated with lldb on macOS for a while now -- I
tend to find that when I get a can get stack trace from a
still-running process it works fine, but trying to get a stack trace
from a core dump often fails to produce anything useful (but sometimes
it does produce something useful). I haven't been able to find any
information on the Internet to explain why this sometimes happens and
sometimes doesn't, and various things I attempted as fixes didn't work
out. There could be something wrong specifically with this machine,
but I also wouldn't be too shocked if this is just randomly broken on
macOS.

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

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