Re: VACUUM causes violent postmaster death - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alfred Perlstein
Subject Re: VACUUM causes violent postmaster death
Date
Msg-id 20001103155718.D5112@fw.wintelcom.net
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In response to Re: VACUUM causes violent postmaster death  (Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org>)
Responses Re: VACUUM causes violent postmaster death  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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* Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org> [001103 15:32] wrote:
> 
> | > This happens fairly regularly.  I assume exit code 26 is used to dictate
> | > that a specific error has occured.
> | > 
> | > The database is a decent size (~3M records) with about 4 indexes.
> | 
> | What version of postgresql?  Tom Lane recently fixed some severe problems
> | with vacuum and heavily used databases, the fix should be in the latest
> | 7.0.2-patches/7.0.3 release.
> 
> It's 7.0.2-patches from about two or three weeks ago.

Make sure pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c is at:

revision 1.148.2.1
date: 2000/09/19 21:01:04;  author: tgl;  state: Exp;  lines: +37 -19
Back-patch fix to ensure that VACUUM always calls FlushRelationBuffers.

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