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Re: [Pgbuildfarm-members] CREATE FUNCTION hang on test machine polecat on HEAD

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Creager <Robert.Creager@oracle.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, "pgbuildfarm-members@pgfoundry.org" <pgbuildfarm-members@pgfoundry.org>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-07T17:48:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 21:16, Robert Creager <Robert.Creager@oracle.com> wrote:
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0 0x0000000100a505e4 in Perl_get_hash_seed ()
>> #1 0x0000000100a69b94 in perl_parse ()

> I don't suppose /dev/urandom blocks on OS X?

The man page for it avers not, and besides it's hard to believe that
there wouldn't be a libc routine or two on the stack if we were blocked
in a kernel call, and also Robert showed that the process was consuming
CPU time, so it's not blocked.  Tis puzzling if there's no loop in the
function.

			regards, tom lane