Re: [HACKERS] High-level of inserts makes database drop core - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] High-level of inserts makes database drop core
Date
Msg-id 199811131624.LAA12349@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] High-level of inserts makes database drop core  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Good, I would definitely suggest moving to 6.4 before you do anything
> else.  There were some significant bug fixes in index handling, I
> believe.
> 
> FWIW, my company has been using a pre-alpha 6.4 release with no problems
> in a system where multiple processes write the database concurrently.
> We saw hard-to-reproduce problems when we were on 6.3.2, but those seem
> to have been cleaned up over the summer.

You are correct.  There were cases where heap data was being
read/modified while unlocked, causing problems.  Mega-patch fixed that.

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