Re: Archiver not exiting upon crash

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I've been testing the crash recovery of REL9_2_BETA1, using the same
> method I posted in the "Scaling XLog insertion" thread.  I have the
> checkpointer occasionally throw a FATAL error,

We should also fix this problem? If yes, could you show us the self-contained
test case to reproduce it?

> However, sometimes the automatic recovery never initiates.  It looks
> like the postmaster is waiting for the archiver to exit before it
> starts recovery, and the archiver is waiting for something, I don't
> really know what.

Could you get the backtrace of the waiting archiver?
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Getting_a_stack_trace_of_a_running_PostgreSQL_backend_on_Linux/BSD

You might have gotten the following problem which was discussed before.
This problem was fixed in SIGQUIT signal handler of a backend, but ISTM
not that of an archiver.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2009-11/msg00088.php

Regards,

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Fujii Masao