On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > I created 100 identical pgagent jobs, with one step that simply does "SELECT > pg_sleep(10)". I then forced them all to run immediately, with "UPDATE > pgagent.pga_job SET jobnextrun=now();". pgagent crashed. > > What happened is that the when all those jobs are launched at the same time, > the server ran into the max_connections limit, and pgagent didn't handle > that too well. JobThread::JobThread constructor does not check for NULL > result from DBConn::Get(), and passes a NULL connection to Job::Job, which > tries to reference it, leading to a segfault. > > I propose the attached patch.
hm, in the event that happens, is that logged in the client somehow? wouldn't you want to throw an exception or something like that? merlin -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list (pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers