From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.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 13:47:19 -0700
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On 08/16/2010 12:12 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> 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.
Hmmm, well I don't know how to reproduce it on demand either -- I'll try
to get a backtrace from the wild if possible. I'll keep you posted...
Joe
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