Re: What is happening on buildfarm member crake?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What is happening on buildfarm member crake?
Date: 2014-01-25 21:50:35
Message-ID: 52E431AB.2080500@dunslane.net
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On 01/19/2014 08:22 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Hmm, that looks an awful lot like the SIGUSR1 signal handler is
> getting called after we've already completed shmem_exit. And indeed
> that seems like the sort of thing that would result in dying horribly
> in just this way. The obvious fix seems to be to check
> proc_exit_inprogress before doing anything that might touch shared
> memory, but there are a lot of other SIGUSR1 handlers that don't do
> that either. However, in those cases, the likely cause of a SIGUSR1
> would be a sinval catchup interrupt or a recovery conflict, which
> aren't likely to be so far delayed that they arrive after we've
> already disconnected from shared memory. But the dynamic background
> workers stuff adds a new possible cause of SIGUSR1: the postmaster
> letting us know that a child has started or died. And that could
> happen even after we've detached shared memory.
>

Is anything happening about this? We're still getting quite a few of
these:
<http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_failures.pl?max_days=3&member=crake>

cheers

andrew

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