Re: TRAP: FailedAssertion("!((itemid)->lp_flags & 0x01)",

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TRAP: FailedAssertion("!((itemid)->lp_flags & 0x01)",
Date: 2005-10-28 21:55:32
Message-ID: 20051028215532.GB13187@pervasive.com
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:45:51PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I suppose there's a bug in this path, but I'm darned if I can see what
> > it is. There are a number of obvious inefficiencies, but those
> > shouldn't be important given that this isn't supposed to happen much.
> > But how's it getting to the Assert failure?
>
> While I'm disinclined to change anything until we can explain why it's
> crashing, I suspect that the solution may be to avoid the recursive call
> of SimpleLruReadPage, as in the attached patch. Jim, are you interested
> in seeing if this patch makes the problem go away for you?

Well, this is a production system... what's the risk with that patch?

BTW, is it typical to see a 10 difference between asserts on and off? My
client has a process that was doing 10-20 records/sec with asserts on
and 90-110 with asserts off.
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