On 11/05/2015 11:44 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
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This looks like it is probably the same bug discussed here:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMkU=1xalflhuuohfp5v33rzedlvb5aknnujceum9knbkrb...@mail.gmail.com

And here:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/56041b26.2040...@sigaev.ru

The bug theoretically exists in 9.5, but it wasn't until 9.6 (commit
e95680832854cf300e64c) that free pages were recycled aggressively
enough that it actually becomes likely to be hit.

I have only quickly skimmed the discussions, but my impression was that it's mostly about removing stuff that shouldn't be removed and such. But maybe there are race conditions that cause data corruption. I don't really want to dive too deeply into this, I've already spent too much time trying to reproduce it.


There are some proposed patches in those threads, but discussion on
them seems to have stalled out. Can you try one and see if it fixes
the problems you are seeing?

I can do that - I see there are three patches in the two threads:

  1) gin_pending_lwlock.patch (Jeff Janes)
  2) gin_pending_pagelock.patch (Jeff Janes)
  3) gin_alone_cleanup-2.patch (Teodor Sigaev)

Should I test all of them? Or is (1) obsoleted by (2) for example?

regards

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