Gregory Stark wrote: > > I'm debugging this problem with stalled transactions waiting on locks which > have already been granted and I'm puzzled by something. What is this PGPROC > entry from? > > It's not a real process (pid is 0) and it's not garbage either (prev and next > both point to a real PGPROC entry, namely MyProc which as you can see is > waiting for this PGPROC).
Doesn't this look like your pointer arithmetic being borked? There are too many values that look invalid. > (gdb) p *(PGPROC*)(ShmemBase + MyProc->links.prev) > $2 = {links = {prev = 2520941752, next = 2520941752}, sem = {semId = 1, > semNum = 0}, waitStatus = 0, xid = 0, xmin = 0, pid = 0, > databaseId = 0, roleId = 0, inCommit = 0 '\0', inVacuum = 0 '\0', > isAutovacuum = 0 '\0', lwWaiting = 0 '\0', lwExclusive = 2 '\002', > lwWaitLink = 0x0, waitLock = 0x2, waitProcLock = 0x0, waitLockMode = 0, > heldLocks = 0, myProcLocks = {{prev = 0, next = 1}, { > prev = 4294967296, next = 0}, {prev = 3028785127, next = 360654}, {prev > = 73183493944770560, next = 137438953600}, { > prev = 2520929504, next = 2520929072}, {prev = 2520940536, next = > 2520940536}, {prev = 1, next = 0}, {prev = 0, > next = 4294967296}, {prev = 4294967296, next = 0}, {prev = 2, next = > 0}, {prev = 0, next = 0}, {prev = 1, next = 4294967296}, { > prev = 0, next = 4000475635}, {prev = 360707, next = > 73183493944770560}, {prev = 128, next = 2520933680}, {prev = 2520933680, > next = 2520914616}}, subxids = {overflowed = -72 '�', nxids = 0, xids > = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1626942462, 0, 16384, 16430, 0, 16777216, 2, 0, > 2520930944, 0, 2520930944, 0, 2520914784, 0, 2520914784, > 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}}} > (gdb) p MyProc-ShmemBase > $3 = (PGPROC *) 0xff9ac36e36e264b8 > (gdb) p (unsigned long)MyProc-ShmemBase > $4 = 2520941752 > > > -- > Gregory Stark > EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match