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Re: slru.c race condition (was Re: TRAP: FailedAssertion("!((itemid)->lp_flags & 0x01)", )

Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>

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From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-11-01T18:49:44Z
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On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:23:55AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> > > AFAIK they're not using subtransactions at all, but I'll check.
> > 
> > Well, yeah, they are ... else you'd never have seen this failure.
> 
> Maybe it's in plpgsql EXCEPTION clauses.

Err, I forgot they're using Slony, which is probably using savepoints
and/or exceptions.
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