Re: Unexpected "shared memory block is still in use"

Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 02:32:46PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Just now, while running a parallel check-world on HEAD according to the
>> same script I've been using for quite some time, one of the TAP tests
>> died during initdb:
>> performing post-bootstrap initialization ... 2019-05-08 13:59:19.963 EDT [18351] FATAL: pre-existing shared memory block (key 5440004, ID 1734475802) is still in use

> The odds are very high that you would not have gotten that error before that
> commit. But if the cause matches your guess, it's not something wrong with
> the commit ...

Fair point.

> What OS, OS version, and filesystem?

Up-to-date RHEL6 (kernel 2.6.32-754.12.1.el6.x86_64), ext4 over LVM
on spinning rust with an LSI MegaRAID controller in front of it.

Since complaining, I've done half a dozen more parallel check-worlds
without issue, so the error was and still is rare. This matches the
fact that we've not seen it in the buildfarm :-(.

regards, tom lane