Re: segfault of autovacuum process during restore - coredumps included - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: segfault of autovacuum process during restore - coredumps included
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Msg-id 20051128120526.GC11375@surnet.cl
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In response to segfault of autovacuum process during restore - coredumps included  (Frank van Vugt <ftm.van.vugt@foxi.nl>)
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Frank van Vugt wrote:
> L.S.
>
> Since I started to use v8.1 I've been seeing incidental segfaults of the
> autovacuum process, probably when it is kicking in at some particular point
> during the pg_restore of a database:

The problem appears to be that autovacuum is forgetting to set a
snapshot in cases where it's needed.  My bug -- should be easy to fix.
I'll apply a patch shortly.

Thanks for the report!

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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