On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 10:55 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Thomas, I wonder if the problem is that PHJ_GROW_BATCHES_ELECTING
> updates, via ExecParallelHashJoinSetUpBatches(), HashJoinTable->nbatch,
> while other backends also access ->nbatch in
> ExecParallelHashCloseBatchAccessors(). Both happens after waiting for
> the WAIT_EVENT_HASH_GROW_BATCHES_ELECTING phase.
>
> That'd lead to ExecParallelHashCloseBatchAccessors() likely not finish
> writing all batches (because nbatch < nbatch_old), which seems like it'd
> explain this?
I don't think that's quite it, because it should never have set
'writing' for any batch number >= nbatch.
It's late here, but I'll take this up tomorrow and either find a fix
or figure out how to avoid antisocial noise levels on the build farm
in the meantime.
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Thomas Munro
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