Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-16 Thread David Pacheco
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > David Pacheco <d...@joyent.com> writes: > > I ran into what appears to be a deadlock in the logging subsystem. It > > looks like what happened was that the syslogger process exited becau

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-06 Thread David Pacheco
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > David Pacheco <d...@joyent.com> writes: > > ... that process appears to have exited due to a fatal error > > (out of memory). (I know it exited because the process still exists in > the >

[GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-06 Thread David Pacheco
Hello, I ran into what appears to be a deadlock in the logging subsystem. It looks like what happened was that the syslogger process exited because it ran out of memory. But before the postmaster got a chance to handle the SIGCLD to restart it, it handled a SIGUSR1 to start an autovacuum