Jeremy Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
>> A bit of a leap in the dark, but: maybe the triggering event for this
>> situation is not a "VACUUM pg_amop" but a global cache reset due to
>> sinval message buffer overrun.
> I tried that function you sent, while running my other code. It died, but
> not the same way. None of my processes had the unique constraint error,
> but two had failed during commit. Both of them died in that same place as
> the last one, on pg_amop.
Yeah, that's not very surprising. Running the forced-cache-resets
function will definitely expose that catcache bug pretty quickly.
You'd need to apply the patches I put in yesterday to have a system
that has any chance of withstanding that treatment for any length of time.
> I think I am going to just run without the function running this time and
> see if it does the duplicate type error and if it will generate two cores.
Please also look at putting together a test case so others can poke at
this.
regards, tom lane
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