Re: [HACKERS] select * from ..;vacuum crashes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] select * from ..;vacuum crashes
Date
Msg-id 199810060435.AAA28754@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] select * from ..;vacuum crashes  (Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>)
List pgsql-hackers
> >You must enable Assert to see the crash.
>
> I saw the crash without assertion enabled? This is FreeBSD 2.2.6.
>
> >The cause may be because you are doing a vacuum INSIDE a transaction.  I
> >think that also explains the psql -e thing, because that does both
> >commands in the same transaction.
> >
> >Perhaps we need to disable vacuum inside transactions.  Vadim?
>
> FYI, it is reported that 6.3.2 does not have the crash.

Of course, you are right.  I can reproduce it with the SELECT, then
VACUUM, with no transactions at all.  VACUUM alone works, but not with
the SELECT before it.

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