Re: Bug in libpq causes local clients to hang - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeffrey Baker
Subject Re: Bug in libpq causes local clients to hang
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Msg-id fd145f7d0803240937q6fe18310red61a78f214c0206@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Bug in libpq causes local clients to hang  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Bug in libpq causes local clients to hang
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Jeffrey Baker" <jwbaker@gmail.com> writes:
>  > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> >> If it works over TCP and not over Unix socket, it's a kernel bug.
>  >> The libpq code doesn't really know the difference after connection
>  >> setup.
>
>  > The same thought occurred to me, but it could also be a race condition
>  > which the unix socket is fast enough to trigger but the TCP socket is
>  > not fast enough to trigger.  I'm peeking around in the code but
>  > nothing jumps out yet.
>
>  Fairly hard to believe given that you're talking about communication
>  between two sequential processes.  Anyway I'd suggest that the first
>  thing to do is extract a reproducible test case.  It'd be useful
>  to see if it hangs on other platforms...

The stack trace doesn't actually make sense, does it?  I think that
(at least) the PQmblen frame is spurious.

-jwb


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