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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Return of the Solaris vacuum polling problem -- anyone remember this?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:12:08 -0700
Message-ID: <4C698D88.6030201@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C698CAD.2020001@joeconway.com>
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	<4C698CAD.2020001@joeconway.com>


> I've also recently heard a report of vacuum hanging on 8.3.x on Solaris
> Sparc. Any chance you can get a backtrace from a build with debug symbols?

The problem is that we haven't been able to reproduce the bug in
testing.  Like I said, it only seems to happen occasionally ... like
maybe once in 10 or 20 (or more?) autovacuums.  We've never been seen it
with a manual vacuum at all.

And we can't rebuild the production servers.

-- 
                                  -- Josh Berkus
                                     PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
                                     http://www.pgexperts.com



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