Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Rework subtransaction commit protocol for hot standby. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Rework subtransaction commit protocol for hot standby.
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Msg-id 1224705144.27145.450.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Rework subtransaction commit protocol for hot standby.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Rework subtransaction commit protocol for hot standby.
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On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 15:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> > These traces look weird. Look at the way the xid changes value as we
> > move from call to call. It looks like something is screwy there. If
> > those values are correct we should have failed an earlier assertion.
> 
> No, that's normal behavior on this platform + optimization setting.
> Some of those registers have gotten re-used for other values.  If
> I were desperate to figure out how it got from point A to point B
> I'd recompile with -O0, but this particular call stack doesn't seem
> to hold any surprises: as you say, it seems to be trying to commit
> an aborted xact.  I looked far enough to see that the subxact ID
> was a couple counts higher than the main, so I doubt that bad data
> in the WAL record is the issue.
> 
> Are you able to reproduce the crash?

Took a while, but yes, I can reproduce this now. Analysing... 

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support



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