Re: [HACKERS] Spinlock error

Hi Tom,

Thanks for that info, do know if thre is anyway, to
get more information from postmaster or postges ?

i'd really like to be able to solve this, i'll see if i 
can reproduce the condition.



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Jeff MacDonaldjeff@pgsql.com    irc: bignose on EFnet
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Jeff MacDonald <jeff@pgsql.com>" <jeffm@pgsql.com> writes:
> > After those spinlock errors the postmaster died.... I tries to start it
> > back up and it failed with this error.
> 
> You may need to clean up shared memory blocks and/or semaphores ---
> those are supposed to be deallocated when the postmaster quits,
> but it sounds like it didn't happen.  See the pgsql ipcclean script.
> 
> Not sure what caused the stuck spinlock in the first place.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
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