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From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Arne Roland <A.Roland@index.de>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: dsa_allocate() faliure
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 15:47:08 -0600
Message-ID: <20190204214708.GI29720@telsasoft.com> (raw)
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 08:31:47PM +0000, Arne Roland wrote:
> I could take a backup and restore the relevant tables on a throwaway system. You are just suggesting to replace line 728
> elog(FATAL,
>                                  "dsa_allocate could not find %zu free pages", npages);
> by
> elog(PANIC,
>                                  "dsa_allocate could not find %zu free pages", npages);
> correct? Just for my understanding: why would the shutdown of the whole instance create more helpful logging?

You'd also start with pg_ctl -c, which would allow it to dump core, which could
be inspected with GDB to show a backtrace and other internals, which up to now
nobody (including myself) has been able to provide.

Justin




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