"could not reattach to shared memory" captured in buildfarm

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: "could not reattach to shared memory" captured in buildfarm
Date: 2009-05-02 15:21:21
Message-ID: 15386.1241277681@sss.pgh.pa.us
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vaquita has an interesting report today:
http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=vaquita&dt=2009-05-01%2020:00:06

Partway through the contrib tests, for absolutely no visible reason
whatsoever, connections start to fail with
FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=364, addr=02920000): 487

We've certainly heard more than a couple of field reports of this from
Windows users, but I don't think we've ever seen it in the buildfarm
before. (I don't see any similar instances in vaquita's history, anyway.)

I assume vaquita's configuration hasn't changed recently (Dave?)
so this seems to put the lie to the theory we've taken refuge in
that it's caused by bad antivirus software. I don't see that it
gets us any closer to a solution though.

regards, tom lane

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