On 3 Feb 2012, at 06:45, Tom Lane wrote: > > I probably ought to let the test case run overnight before concluding > anything, but at this point it's run for two-plus hours with no errors > after applying this patch: > > diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c > b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
Thank Tom! I've had this running for a few hours now without problems. Previously, on Sparc, the problem would occur in less than a minute. I did try a build with --enable-cassert and it didn't actually cause the problem. I think I left it for about an hour. Although a a relatively modern machine, this Sparc box I am using is painfully slow. My guess is that the extra time taken to perform the Assert code is hiding the problem. Now it's time to persuade the customer to use a patched version of pg ;) Cheers, Duncan P.S. I've been looking for an OS project to contribute to, and I think I'll see if I can help with pg. Time to look a the TODO list :)
