On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > On 2016-04-29 10:38:55 -0700, Jeff Janes wrote: >> I don't see the problem with an cassert-enabled, probably because it >> is just too slow to ever reach the point where the problem occurs. > > Running the test with cassert enabled I actually get assertion failures, > due to the FATAL you added. > > #1 0x0000000000958dde in ExceptionalCondition (conditionName=0xb36c2a > "!(RefCountErrors == 0)", errorType=0xb361af "FailedAssertion", > fileName=0xb36170 > "/home/admin/src/postgresql/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c", > lineNumber=2506) at > /home/admin/src/postgresql/src/backend/utils/error/assert.c:54 > #2 0x00000000007c9fc9 in CheckForBufferLeaks () at > /home/admin/src/postgresql/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c:2506 ... > > You didn't see those?
Yes, I have been seeing those on assert-enabled builds going back as far as I can remember (long before this particular problem started showing up). I just assumed it was a natural consequence of throwing an ERROR from inside a critical section. I never really understood it, why would a panicking process bother to check for buffer leaks in the first place? It is leaking everything, which is why the entire system has to be brought down immediately. I have been trying (and failing) to reproduce the problem in more recent releases, with and without cassert. Here is pg_config output of one of my current attempts: BINDIR = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/bin DOCDIR = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/share/doc HTMLDIR = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/share/doc INCLUDEDIR = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/include PKGINCLUDEDIR = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/include INCLUDEDIR-SERVER = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/include/server LIBDIR = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/lib PKGLIBDIR = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/lib LOCALEDIR = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/share/locale MANDIR = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/share/man SHAREDIR = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/share SYSCONFDIR = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/etc PGXS = /home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk CONFIGURE = 'CFLAGS=-ggdb' '--with-extra-version=-c1543a8' '--enable-debug' '--with-libxml' '--with-perl' '--with-python' '--with-ldap' '--with-openssl' '--with-gssapi' '--enable-cassert' '--prefix=/home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/' CC = gcc CPPFLAGS = -DFRONTEND -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/include/libxml2 CFLAGS = -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -g -ggdb CFLAGS_SL = -fpic LDFLAGS = -L../../src/common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-rpath,'/home/jjanes/pgsql/torn_bisect/lib',--enable-new-dtags LDFLAGS_EX = LDFLAGS_SL = LIBS = -lpgcommon -lpgport -lxml2 -lssl -lcrypto -lgssapi_krb5 -lz -lreadline -lrt -lcrypt -ldl -lm VERSION = PostgreSQL 9.6devel-c1543a8 The only difference between this and the ones that did find the ERR would be toggling --enable-cassert and changing which git commit was used (and manually applying the gin_alone patch when testing commits that precede that one's committal. Linux: 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 23 03:35:39 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux /proc/cpu_info: processor : 7 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 62 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-4640 v2 @ 2.20GHz stepping : 4 microcode : 4294967295 cpu MHz : 2199.933 cache size : 20480 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 7 cpu cores : 8 apicid : 7 initial apicid : 7 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc rep_good unfair_spinlock pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm xsaveopt fsgsbase smep erms bogomips : 4399.86 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 42 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
