Re: BUG #3427: Autovacuum crashed server - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: BUG #3427: Autovacuum crashed server
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Msg-id 468E71C2.40903@hagander.net
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In response to Re: BUG #3427: Autovacuum crashed server  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> AH> Is there any way to figure out what "exit code -1073741819" means?
>>
>> Yes, -1073741819 is 0xc0000005 aka "Access Violation".
>
> Oh, OK.  How can this happen?  I don't know much about Windows.  Maybe
> you have some antivirus is checking the file at the same time Autovac is
> checking it?

Note that Windows can (and often will) give you Access Violation when
you try to access any memory outside of your address-space (since that's
technically an access violation), so it can be whatever would cause
segmentation fault on unix.

//Magnus

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