Re: Weird postmaster crashes

Makes sense. Thanks!

One more thing to clarify - when you said it was fixed in .3 and .4 did
you mean 7.3 or 7.2.3?

Thanks!

Dima

Tom Lane wrote:

>Dmitry Tkach <dmitry@openratings.com> writes:
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>>2003-06-10 13:53:32 [14551]  FATAL 1:  LWLockAcquire: can't wait without
>>a PROC structure
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>>Could you give me some idea on what circumstances cause this to happen?
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>IIRC, it's an order-of-operations mistake during backend shutdown: the
>proc structure is deallocated while it's still possible to receive an
>interrupt from another backend --- and if you get such an interrupt, you
>need the proc.  So from the user's point of view it's pretty
>unpredictable.
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>Short answer: upgrade.  This is not the only nasty bug in 7.2.1.
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>            regards, tom lane
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