Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> I haven't looked at this in detail, but are you sure that this isn't
> the bug that was fixed by commit
> e81e8f9342b037246b284bad15e42e21b1929301 ? The "invalid argument"
> poll() error is too generic to be sure what is really at fault, but
> this doesn't need to be a FATAL error, it seems.
He's running BSD, which is not at all wishy-washy about what it means:
[EINVAL] The specified time limit is negative.
The reason it's FATAL is that it's happening in the syslogger process,
which has no error recovery capability.
regards, tom lane