Re: "ERROR: could not read block 6 ...: read only 0 of 8192 bytes" after autovacuum cancelled - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: "ERROR: could not read block 6 ...: read only 0 of 8192 bytes" after autovacuum cancelled
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Msg-id 20091110185918.GB3798@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: "ERROR: could not read block 6 ...: read only 0 of 8192 bytes" after autovacuum cancelled  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: "ERROR: could not read block 6 ...: read only 0 of 8192 bytes" after autovacuum cancelled
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> >> Looks OK, but please update the comment right before the
> >> RecordTransactionCommit, along the lines of "We prevent cancel
> >> interrupts after this point to mitigate the problem that you
> >> can't abort the transaction now".
> 
> > BTW I'm thinking in backpatching this all the way back to 7.4 -- are
> > we agreed on that?
> 
> Yeah, I would think the problems can manifest all the way back.

Done, thanks for the discussion.

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