David Darville <ml@darville.vm.bytemark.co.uk> writes:
> While testing a continuous archiving setup using PostgreSQL 8.2.3, on Debian
> Etch amd64, I found out that the slave database crashed when I did a 'DROP
> DATABASE' on the master.
Thanks for the report. I believe this will fix it:
Index: dbcommands.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c,v
retrieving revision 1.187.2.1
diff -c -r1.187.2.1 dbcommands.c
*** dbcommands.c 27 Jan 2007 20:15:47 -0000 1.187.2.1
--- dbcommands.c 12 Apr 2007 14:40:40 -0000
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*** 1438,1443 ****
--- 1438,1446 ----
/* Also, clean out any entries in the shared free space map */
FreeSpaceMapForgetDatabase(xlrec->db_id);
+ /* Also, clean out any fsync requests that might be pending in md.c */
+ ForgetDatabaseFsyncRequests(xlrec->db_id);
+
/* Clean out the xlog relcache too */
XLogDropDatabase(xlrec->db_id);
regards, tom lane
