Re: [HACKERS] Aborted Transaction During Vacuum

Tom Lane wrote: >"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes: >> As far as I recall, the only error message he has listed
sofar is from >> psql, which merely records the unlink failure at the end of the vacuum. >> Everything else looks
remarkablylike the vc_abort bug. > >But the vc_abort problem didn't cause a backend coredump --- it just >reported an
errorand failed to complete the vacuum, no? >
 

I got a coredump too; I never mentioned it, because I found the proximate
cause and curing that made it go away.  When unlink failed in vc_shutdown,
it called ELOG and a segfault occurred a little later.

I forgot about that when your patch fixed the original problem.

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