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

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Robert Creager <Robert.Creager@oracle.com>
Date: 2011-06-07T17:46:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 19:40:21 Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 06/07/2011 01:18 PM, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
> > I don't suppose /dev/urandom blocks on OS X?  Granted, I may have
> > missed something in translation with the macro fest that is perl...
> 
> I wondered if we were possibly exhausting some entropy pool. It seems
> like this would be just such a bad bug that it would be amazing if we
> were the first to trip up on it. But I guess you never know.
Shouldn't the backtrace show a syscall in that case?

I guess one would need a debug perl build + single stepping for a more 
convincing answer...

Andres