Re: FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode

"Laura Hornbeck" <lhornbeck(at)oppunl(dot)com> writes:
>> Interesting. We don't use futexes directly, so this smells like a problem
>> in glibc or some such. Can you get a stack trace?

> #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1 0xb7d6031e in __lll_mutex_lock_wait () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #2 0xb7cfe2b4 in _L_mutex_lock_2495 () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #3 0xb7da2946 in __PRETTY_FUNCTION__.2189 () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #4 0x00000000 in ?? ()

Hm, that's pretty unhelpful :-( ... I suppose you are using stripped
Postgres executables, so we're not going to be able to learn more here.
But it's definitely glibc getting wedged for some reason.

At this point I'd agree with kill -9'ing the subprocess, which will make
its parent postmaster quit, and then you can try again. It seems quite
possible that it won't lock up the next time. If it does lock up
repeatably, perhaps we could learn more with strace (try launching the
postmaster under strace -f). The last hundred or so lines of the strace
output before it stops at the futex call should give a hint what it's
doing.

regards, tom lane