Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dugong (icc on ia64) has been failing the contrib installcheck consistently > since 6 days ago with errors like: > ERROR: could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/40960/41403: No such file > or directory
Yeah, I already asked Sergey about this but I guess he's not had time to poke at it yet: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg01061.php My theory is that putting an Assert right there is somehow breaking ForwardFsyncRequest --- maybe it becomes a complete no-op, maybe it forwards a corrupt request, who knows. The only way that there'd be any visible problem from that, if you weren't actually performing pull-the-power-plug tests, would be that lack of forwarding of "revoke" requests could lead to the bgwriter attempting to fsync files in already-dropped databases or tablespaces. Which matches the visible symptoms exactly. This looks like nothing so much as a compiler bug, particularly given that we're seeing it with only one compiler on only one platform. We should study it more carefully, both to look for workarounds and to file a suitable bug report, but I'll be pretty surprised if it's really our bug. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
