On Jan 14, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Justin Pitts <jpi...@bplglobal.net> writes:
>> My guess is that I am not provoking a 'SI queue overrun' 
> 
> The 100 temp table creations probably will do that just fine.
> 

Is there a way to verify this?



>> Am I completely off base about how this should be reproducing?
> 
> Two points: the session you hope to have crash *must* be in serializable
> mode,

The 2 competing sessions doing the read/modify sequence on foo are set to 
SERIALIZABLE.


> and the crash would actually happen in the transaction after the
> one that's rolled back.
> 

I don't follow. Are you suggesting I begin another transaction on connection 1 
with a read, and that
would provoke the crash?


> The error doesn't have to be a serialization error, so in principle
> you should be able to make it fail with something as simple as
> 
>       begin;
>       select 1/0;
>       rollback;
>       select * from foo;
> 
> as long as the ROLLBACK is done with a prepared statement and you've
> forced a SI overrun since the ROLLBACK was prepared.
> 
>                       regards, tom lane


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