Re: pgbench: using prepared BEGIN statement in a pipeline could cause an error - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: pgbench: using prepared BEGIN statement in a pipeline could cause an error
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Msg-id 20230214002004.jmhaz4fco6j6dke7@awork3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: pgbench: using prepared BEGIN statement in a pipeline could cause an error  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
Responses Re: pgbench: using prepared BEGIN statement in a pipeline could cause an error
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Hi,

On 2023-02-08 13:10:40 +0100, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2023-Feb-08, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 
> > I propose instead the following: each command is prepared just before
> > it's executed, as previously, and if we see a \startpipeline, then we
> > prepare all commands starting with the one just after, and until the
> > \endpipeline.
> 
> Here's the patch.

There's something wrong with the patch, it reliably fails with core dumps:
https://cirrus-ci.com/github/postgresql-cfbot/postgresql/commitfest%2F42%2F3260

Example crash:
https://api.cirrus-ci.com/v1/task/4922406553255936/logs/cores.log

https://api.cirrus-ci.com/v1/artifact/task/6611256413519872/crashlog/crashlog-pgbench.EXE_0750_2023-02-13_14-07-06-189.txt

Andres



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