Re: signal 11 segfaults with parallel workers

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Rick Otten <rottenwindfish(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: signal 11 segfaults with parallel workers
Date: 2017-07-31 03:41:21
Message-ID: 694.1501472481@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> There is already a "Parallel Worker" memory context defined by that
> time. I think the issue is that multicorn library expects that
> Transaction context to be defined by that time.

It looks like multicorn supposes that a library's _PG_init function can
only be called inside a transaction. That is broken with a capital B.
We need not consider parallel query to find counterexamples: that
means you can't preload multicorn using shared_preload_libraries,
as that loads libraries into the postmaster, which never has and never
will run transactions.

Whatever it's trying to initialize in _PG_init needs to be done later.

regards, tom lane

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