logical replication launcher crash on buildfarm
Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: 2017-03-16T03:28:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi, I just unstuck a bunch of my buildfarm animals. That triggered some spurious failures (on piculet, calliphoridae, mylodon), but also one that doesn't really look like that: https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=culicidae&dt=2017-03-16%2002%3A40%3A03 with the pertinent point being: ================== stack trace: pgsql.build/src/test/regress/tmp_check/data/core ================== [New LWP 1894] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `postgres: bgworker: logical replication launcher '. Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. #0 0x000055e265bff5e3 in ?? () #0 0x000055e265bff5e3 in ?? () #1 0x000055d3ccabed0d in StartBackgroundWorker () at /home/andres/build/buildfarm-culicidae/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/bgworker.c:792 #2 0x000055d3ccacf4fc in SubPostmasterMain (argc=3, argv=0x55d3cdbb71c0) at /home/andres/build/buildfarm-culicidae/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c:4878 #3 0x000055d3cca443ea in main (argc=3, argv=0x55d3cdbb71c0) at /home/andres/build/buildfarm-culicidae/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/backend/main/main.c:205 it's possible that me killing things and upgrading caused this, but given this is a backend running EXEC_BACKEND, I'm a bit suspicous that it's more than that. The machine is a bit backed up at the moment, so it'll probably be a while till it's at that animal/branch again, otherwise I'd not have mentioned this. Greetings, Andres Freund
Commits
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Avoid passing function pointers across process boundaries.
- 9c225acf0b97 9.6.3 landed
- 32470825d36d 10.0 landed
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Don't use bgw_main even to specify in-core bgworker entrypoints.
- 0ef26bb394ab 9.5.7 landed
- 9b6e8d8f86ac 9.6.3 landed
- 2113ac4cbb12 10.0 landed