Re: [BUG] Crash on pgbench initialization.

Hi,

On 2023-07-24 15:54:33 +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2023-Jul-24, Michael Paquier wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:21:47PM +0300, Anton A. Melnikov wrote:
> > > After some research, found this happens when the LimitAdditionalPins() returns exactly zero.
> > > In the current master, this will happen e.g. if shared_buffers = 10MB and max_worker_processes = 40.
> > > Then the command "pgbench --initialize postgres" will lead to crash.
> > > See the backtrace attached.
> > > 
> > > There is a fix in the patch applied. Please take a look on it.
> > 
> > Nice catch, issue reproduced here so I am adding an open item for now.
> > (I have not looked at the patch, yet.)
> 
> Hmm, I see that all this code was added by 31966b151e6a, which makes
> this Andres' item.  I see Michael marked it as such in the open items
> page, but did not CC Andres, so I'm doing that here now.

Thanks - I had indeed not seen this.  I can't really keep up with the list at
all times...


> I don't know this code at all, but I hope that this can be solved with
> just Anton's proposed patch.

Yes, it's just that off-by-one.  I need to check if there's a similar bug for
local / temp table buffers though.

Greetings,

Andres Freund