Re: cannot abort transaction 2737414167, it was already committed

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: cannot abort transaction 2737414167, it was already committed
Date: 2023-12-27 22:42:09
Message-ID: 2757419.1703716929@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> In CommitTransaction() there is a stretch of code beginning s->state =
> TRANS_COMMIT and ending s->state = TRANS_DEFAULT, from which we call
> out to various subsystems' AtEOXact_XXX() functions. There is no way
> to roll back in that state, so anything that throws ERROR from those
> routines is going to get something much like $SUBJECT. Hmm, we'd know
> which exact code path got that EIO from your smoldering core if we'd
> put an explicit critical section there (if we're going to PANIC
> anyway, it might as well not be from a different stack after
> longjmp()...).

+1, there's basically no hope of debugging this sort of problem
as things stand.

regards, tom lane

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