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From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Assertion failure in base backup code path
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Msg-id 20131218230359.GH26481@alap2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Assertion failure in base backup code path  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Hi Magnus,

It looks to me like the path to do_pg_start_backup() outside of a
transaction context comes from your initial commit of the base backup
facility.
The problem is that you're not allowed to do anything leading to a
syscache/catcache lookup in those contexts.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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