Hi all, I ran into a surprising behavior while hacking on the FSM delay patch.
I changed the signature of a freespace.c function that the BRIN code calls, and this change by itself doesn't cause a crash. With the full FSM patch, causing BRIN errors in manual queries in psql doesn't cause a crash. However, during the BRIN regression tests, the queries that purposely cause errors result in FATAL instead, causing a crash. For example, brin_summarize_new_values() eventually leads to calling index_open(): ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_WRONG_OBJECT_TYPE), errmsg("\"%s\" is not an index", RelationGetRelationName(r)))); But the elevel is 21 (FATAL) in this partial stack trace: #0 0x00005623aff8aed6 in proc_exit_prepare (code=1) at /home/john/pgdev/postgresql/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipc.c:209 __func__ = "proc_exit_prepare" #1 0x00005623aff8adbb in proc_exit (code=1) at /home/john/pgdev/postgresql/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipc.c:107 __func__ = "proc_exit" #2 0x00005623b01435c3 in errfinish (dummy=0) at /home/john/pgdev/postgresql/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c:540 edata = 0x5623b06f63c0 <errordata> elevel = 21 oldcontext = 0x5623b2121b10 econtext = 0x0 __func__ = "errfinish" #3 0x00005623afbb9ab1 in index_open (relationId=52389, lockmode=4) at /home/john/pgdev/postgresql/src/backend/access/index/indexam.c:159 __errno_location = <optimized out> r = 0x7f03773e1750 __func__ = "index_open" If I comment out the tests that purposely cause errors, the BRIN tests fail normally, but then another test in the same parallel group crashes, causing all later tests to fail. --- 1 ---- ! psql: FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode and *** 65,67 **** --- 65,74 ---- -- Modify fillfactor in existing index alter index spgist_point_idx set (fillfactor = 90); reindex index spgist_point_idx; + WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server process + DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory. + HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and repeat your command. + server closed the connection unexpectedly + This probably means the server terminated abnormally + before or while processing the request. + connection to server was lost I'm thoroughly stumped -- anyone have an idea where to look next? Thanks, -John Naylor