Re: Potential RC1-stoppers

Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> writes:
> I rebooted my machine, and it didn't happen again that night. Yesterday,
> my staff reinstalled Pg straight from the CVS but without (!) tarring up
> the old Pg install, so I'm afraid I don't have any logs. I run Pg w/debug
> switches on my development machine; this machine did not have such.

Drat.

> I don't have a log, but do have the query that was issued, multiple times,
> overlapping:
> SELECT * FROM zope_facinst LIMIT 1000;

It's really unlikely (I hope) that the clients running SELECTs had
anything to do with it.  You had mentioned that you were busy making
manual schema revisions while this went on; that process seems more
likely to be the guilty party.  But if you don't have the logs anymore,
I suppose there's not much chance of reconstructing what you did :-(

I spent much of this afternoon groveling through the deletion-related
code, looking for some code path that could lead to a deletion operation
deleting the wrong file.  I didn't find anything that looked plausible
enough to be worth pursuing.  So I'm stumped for the moment.  We'll have
to hope that if it happens again, we can gather more data.
        regards, tom lane