On 2014-08-15 14:53:45 +0200, Antonin Houska wrote: > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/blu436-smtp12682d628f61ab9736099c3dc...@phx.gbl > recalls me that I also saw an assertion failure recently. Although I > wanted to isolate and report my issue when my vacation is over, this > report made me curious whether I saw the same. Eventually it seems to be > a different symptom.
That's something separate, yes. > Following are the steps that trigger the failure in my environment > (9.5devel), although it's not always that straightforward - sometimes I > need to create and populate one more table. (I use the 'test_decoding' > contrib module.) > > > postgres=# SELECT pg_create_logical_replication_slot('my_slot', > 'test_decoding'); > pg_create_logical_replication_slot > ------------------------------------ > (my_slot,0/16F3B30) > (1 row) > > postgres=# CREATE TABLE a AS SELECT * FROM > pg_logical_slot_get_changes('my_slot', NULL, NULL) WITH NO DATA; > SELECT 0 > postgres=# INSERT INTO a SELECT * FROM > pg_logical_slot_get_changes('my_slot', NULL, NULL); > INSERT 0 2 > postgres=# INSERT INTO a SELECT * FROM > pg_logical_slot_get_changes('my_slot', NULL, NULL); > The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed. > !> Is this just to reproduce the issue, or are you really storing the results of logical decoding in a table again? Why? That'll just result in circularity, no? It's not something I really thought about allowing when writing this. Possibly we can make it work, but I don't really see the point. We obviously shouldn't just crash, but that's not my point. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers