Robert Haas escribió:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I encountered the following assertion failure when I executed
> > an immediate shutdown.
> >
> > LOG: received immediate shutdown request
> > WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server process
> > DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back
> > the current transaction and exit, because another server process
> > exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
> > HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and
> > repeat your command.
> > TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(CheckpointerPID == 0)", File: "postmaster.c",
> > Line: 3440)
> >
> > The cause of this problem seems to be that PostmasterStateMachine()
> > may fail to wait for the checkpointer to exit. Attached patch fixes this.
>
> What commit broke this?
The one that introduced SIGKILL in immediate-mode stop.
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