Assertion failure during initdb with transaction_timeout set - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi,

While discussing the assertion failure with track_commit_timestamp=on during initdb [1],
I found a similar issue with another GUC: transaction_timeout.

Running initdb -c transaction_timeout=1 triggers the following assertion failure:

running bootstrap script ... TRAP: failed Assert("all_timeouts_initialized"), File: "timeout.c", Line: 164, PID: 22057
0   postgres                            0x00000001105d9d02 ExceptionalCondition + 178
1   postgres                            0x0000000110612af7 enable_timeout + 55
2   postgres                            0x0000000110612aa9 enable_timeout_after + 73
3   postgres                            0x000000010fead8e0 StartTransaction + 816
4   postgres                            0x000000010fead4a1 StartTransactionCommand + 65
5   postgres                            0x000000010fef01de BootstrapModeMain + 1518
6   postgres                            0x0000000110167ef4 main + 676
7   dyld                                0x00007ff805092530 start + 3056
child process was terminated by signal 6: Abort trap: 6


This happens because enable_timeout() tries to start the transaction timeout
before InitializeTimeouts() has been called, i.e., the timeout subsystem
hasn't been initialized yet.

To address this, I'm thinking forcibly setting transaction_timeout to 0
during bootstrap or in initdb.

Any thoughts?

Regards,

[1] https://postgr.es/m/87plejmnpy.fsf@163.com

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Fujii Masao
NTT DATA Japan Corporation