Re: Beta 6 Regression results on Redat 7.0. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: Beta 6 Regression results on Redat 7.0.
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.33.0103201945060.33158-100000@mobile.hub.org
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In response to Re: Beta 6 Regression results on Redat 7.0.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Beta 6 Regression results on Redat 7.0.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> > I'm hoping it was a problem on my machine -- educate me on
> > what caused the error
>
> Well, that's exactly what I'd like to know.  The direct cause of the
> error is that DROP TABLE is finding that some other backend has a
> reference-count hold on a page of the temp table it's trying to drop.
> Since no other backend should be trying to touch this temp table,
> there's something pretty fishy here.
>
> Given that this is a parallel test, you may be looking at a
> low-probability timing-dependent failure.  I'd say set up the machine
> and run repeat tests for an hour or three ... that's what I plan to do
> here.

Okay, I roll'd an RC1 but haven't put it up for FTP yet ... I'll wait for
a few hours to see if anyone can reproduce this, and, if not, put out what
I've rolled ...

say, 00:00AST ...



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