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From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [Pgbuildfarm-members] CREATE FUNCTION hang on test machine polecat on HEAD
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Msg-id 201106071946.42778.andres@anarazel.de
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In response to Re: [Pgbuildfarm-members] CREATE FUNCTION hang on test machine polecat on HEAD  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 19:40:21 Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 06/07/2011 01:18 PM, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
> > I don't suppose /dev/urandom blocks on OS X?  Granted, I may have
> > missed something in translation with the macro fest that is perl...
> 
> I wondered if we were possibly exhausting some entropy pool. It seems
> like this would be just such a bad bug that it would be amazing if we
> were the first to trip up on it. But I guess you never know.
Shouldn't the backtrace show a syscall in that case?

I guess one would need a debug perl build + single stepping for a more 
convincing answer...

Andres

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