Re: FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode

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From: pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 1:10 PM
To: lhornbeck@oppunl.com
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode

"Laura Hornbeck" <lhornbeck@oppunl.com> writes:
> Hmmm ... unless you had extremely high settings for both
> checkpoint_segments and checkpoint_timeout, it shouldn't take an hour to
recover from a crash.

> checkpoint_segments is 8.

That's certainly not out of line --- I'd expect a max recovery time on the
order of a minute or so for that much WAL.

> strace -p26891
> Process 26891 attached - interrupt to quit futex(0xb7db2880,
> FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL

Interesting.  We don't use futexes directly, so this smells like a problem
in glibc or some such.  Can you get a stack trace?

    $ gdb /path/to/postgres-executable 26891
    gdb> bt
    gdb> quit

            regards, tom lane



#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7d6031e in __lll_mutex_lock_wait () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7cfe2b4 in _L_mutex_lock_2495 () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#3  0xb7da2946 in __PRETTY_FUNCTION__.2189 () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#4  0x00000000 in ?? ()


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