Re: BUG #7545: Unresponsive server with error log reporting: "poll() failed: Invalid argument"

Excerpts from tanakalen's message of lun sep 17 06:00:05 -0300 2012:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
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> Bug reference:      7545
> Logged by:          Len Tanaka
> Email address:      tanakalen@gmail.com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.2.0
> Operating system:   Mac OS X 10.6.8
> Description:       =20
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> Multiple log files with same error repeated:
> poll() failed: Invalid argument
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> Prior to error, in user account in user table doing an insert that has =
not
> failed in past. Unresponsive thereafter. Unable to shutdown postmaster.
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> configure:
> ./configure --with-includes=3D/sw/include --with-libraries=3D/sw/lib --=
with-perl
> --with-python --with-openssl --with-bonjour --with-pam --with-krb5
> --with-ldap --enable-thread-safety --with-libxml --with-libxslt
> --enable-dtrace

So the full log files correspond to the server log file, right?  What
process is filling the logs?  (You can tell by adding a %p to
log_line_prefix in postgresql.conf, if it's not there already).

Is the table a FDW table or something otherwise funny?  Please give more
details; also about the underlying platform (is this a non-Intel
dinosaur or something?)

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=C3=81lvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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